![]() ![]() That’s the rundown of Father’s Day, a new novel from Simon Van Booy, a highly decorated British-American novelist, essayist, and philosopher. But when she realizes they’ve been killed in a car crash, “Harvey looked at the door to principal Russo’s office, because her real life was on the other side.” On Father’s Day twenty years later, she’s a professional artist in Paris who calls her father’s once-estranged brother “Dad.” As Harvey shows her surrogate father around Paris, she presents him with a series of gifts that drive the story toward a memorable final scene. ![]() When a six-year-old girl named Harvey is called into the principal’s office at school, she thinks her parents have only been hurt, at first, and pictures them in full-body casts. ![]()
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