Henry Carter Hull

On a winter's night under a full moon, a father and daughter trek into the woods to see the Great Horned Owl.

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...

Daley, torn as a child between her liberal, socially committed mother and charismatic, alcoholic father, embarks on her own separate life as an adult, but when her dad hits rock bottom, she is lured back home with a dream of getting him sober and restoring their relationship, risking the possibility of a future with Jonathan.

Coming home from boarding school, Ashlyn has big plans for the summer until her wealthy father is arrested for tax evasion, her mother enters a rehab facility for "exhaustion," and Ashlyn, not a fan of the outdoors, is sent to a rustic team-building retreat center in the middle of nowhere.

Samuel Jones deserted his daughter Maggie years ago and went to live with the Indians. When he tries to restore his relationship with Maggie, he finds that his granddaughter Lily has been kidnapped by renegade Apaches who want to sell her to slavers in Mexico. Samuel, Maggie, and her younger daughter Dot set out together on a desparate rescue mission.

"Maddy is a devoted stay-at-home wife and mother, host of excellent parties, giver of thoughtful gifts, and bestower of a searingly perceptive piece of advice or two. She is the cornerstone of her family, a true matriarch...until she commits suicide, leaving her husband Brady and teenage daughter Eve heartbroken and reeling, wondering what happened. How could the exuberant, exacting woman they loved disappear so abruptly, seemingly without reason,...

A young girl describes all the ways in which her mother and father conspire to ruin her life.

"A short epic novel about art, grief, and love by Sheila Heti, the author of Motherhood and How Should A Person Be"--