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O Pai Da Chuva (2011)

by Lily King(Favorite Author)

3.84 of 5 Votes: 4

languge

English

genre

Young Adult Fiction

publisher

Editora Guerra & Paz

review 1: "Did my father ever have a conscience? Did he ever wake up in the dark and think: I have treated people badly; I have been selfish; I have caused pain? Or did he truly never develop to that extent? Was he only ever capable of feeling his own needs, his own pain?" p. 343This is a harsh and unrelenting true to life story, told with hard edges and excellent writing. I couldn't put it down, it was a fast read. I am impressed with how well the author re-created the country club martini scene of the 60's and 70's. While exact details don't match, the overall map and essence of the story could be my own, or that of many of my peers from my childhood. Eerie in her insight, for sure. TRIGGER warning for any adult children of addicts/alcoholics - so much of this story felt real to m... moree, and I just want all of you to be aware of it in case you don't want to read about your life in black and white.
review 2: Having just read and really liked Euphoria by Lily King and read good reviews of Father of the Rain, I chose it as my next book. The story follows the relationship of Daley Amory and her father, Gardiner, and it's broken up into three parts - each part reflects a different time in Daley's life. In Part I, Daley is eleven and about to experience the most significant event in her childhood when her mother leaves her father at the beginning of the summer to spend it with her parents in New Hampshire, taking Daley with her. Like many children of separation and divorce, Daley has to learn to navigate between her parents new lives, coping with their bitterness towards each other and learning to bend, grow and change in two families instead of one. Daley adores her father, but without her mother's protection, she is forced to confront her father's strong, charismatic personality alone, as well as his main weakness - alcoholism. Alcoholism was the wedge that drove her mother away from him, and in turn it eventually forces Daley and her elder brother, Garvey from their father's life. In Part II, Daley is 29 years old and about to begin her professional and personal life anew. She has landed a job as a professor and researcher of anthropology at Berkeley and is moving to California with her boyfriend, Jonathan. Just as the car is packed and ready to go, Garvey calls from their father's home in Massachusetts to say that Gardiner's in crisis and he needs her to come home to help. Despite Jonathan's protestations, Daley turns the car around and heads for the East Coast. It's a fateful decision for Daley and her future, but it also gives her the chance to work through her feelings and her relationship with her father. In Part III, Gardiner has suffered a stroke and Daley returns to his side as a forty-something wife and mother of two children. Part I was very enjoyable, as it described the difficulties of a child who has been thrust into a new world order with the divorce of her parents. Gardiner is not a likable person and, although I appreciated Daley's cathartic need to work out her relationship with her dad in Part II, it was a tedious process with a predictable outcome. The story continued in that vein in Part III, giving short-shrift to Daley's own and potentially much more interesting relationship with Jonathan. less

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