Books by Amity Gaige

For readers of Meg Wolitzer, Lionel Shriver, Kate Atkinson and Jennifer Egan

Juliet forsøger forgæves at finde en balance mellem familielivet og hendes fejlslagne ph.d.-afhandling om bekendelsespoesi, da hendes mand, Michael, fortæller hende, at han har tænkt sig at sige sit job op og købe en sejlbåd. Sammen med deres to børn, Sybil på syv og George på to, begiver Juliet og Michael sig af sted til Panama, hvor deres 44 fod lange sejlbåd venter på dem. I begyndelsen forandrer alt sig til det bedre: Juliet og Michaels ægteskab får ny energi, Juliet kommer ud af sin depression og børnene lærer hurtigt at sætte pris på det frie liv til søs. På trods af deres manglende erfaring som sejlere og tankerne om deres stigende gæld giver de fjerne horisonter og isolerede øer Juliet og Michael en længe tiltrængt pause fra hverdagens trummerum. Men da familien må lægge til i en større havneby, bliver en skæbnesvangert møde begyndelsen på en hæsblæsende række begivenheder, der for altid vil ændre deres tilværelse.”Psykologisk udforskende roman med listigt suspense-element”❤️❤️❤️❤️- Politiken

A lyrical and deeply affecting novel recounting the seven days a father spends on the road with his daughter after kidnapping her during a parental visit. Attending a New England summer camp, young Eric Schroder-a first-generation East German immigrant-adopts the last name Kennedy to more easily fit in, a fateful white lie that will set him on an improbable and ultimately tragic course.SCHRODER relates the story of Eric's urgent escape years later to Lake Champlain, Vermont, with his six-year-old daughter, Meadow, in an attempt to outrun the authorities amid a heated custody battle with his wife, who will soon discover that her husband is not who he says he is. From a correctional facility, Eric surveys the course of his life to understand-and maybe even explain-his behavior: the painful separation from his mother in childhood; a harrowing escape to America with his taciturn father; a romance that withered under a shadow of lies; and his proudest moments and greatest regrets as a flawed but loving father.Alternately lovesick and ecstatic, Amity Gaige's deftly imagined novel offers a profound meditation on history and fatherhood, and the many identities we take on in our lives--those we are born with and those we construct for ourselves.