Letter to My Daughter: A Novel

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A fight, ended by a slap, sends Elizabeth out the door of her Baton Rouge home on the eve of her fifteenth birthday. Her mother, Laura, is left to fret and worryand remember. Wracked with guilt as she awaits Lizs return, Laura begins a letter to her daughter, hoping to convey everything Ive always meant to tell you but never have. In her painfully candid confession, Laura shares memories of her own troubled adolescence in rural Louisiana, her bittersweet relationship with a boy she loved despite her parents disapproval, and a personal tragedy that she can never forget. An absorbing and affirming debut, Letter to My Daughter is a heartwrenching novel of mothers, daughters, and the lessons we all learn when we come of age.

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A first novel of immense power.Pat Conroy

Guaranteed to keep the tears flowing . . . destined to be a popular choice for the Nicholas Sparks crowd.Booklist

Gripping . . . [George Bishop] somehow gets into a teenage girls head and roams around there like a native. You believe in Laura; her voice never hits a false note.Star-News (Wilmington, N.C.)

Before you sit down to read this book, put aside a few hours or else youll miss some appointments. You will be pulled into every paragraph.Clyde Edgerton, author of The Bible Salesman

George Bishop writes Letter to My Daughter with a keen eye, an open heart, and a lot of love. I am sure I will return to it again as a cautionary tale and a parable of forgiveness.Adriana Trigiani, author of Lucia, Lucia and Brava, Valentine

Author Bio

George Bishop holds an MFA from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, where he won the departments Award of Excellence for a collection of stories. He has spent most of the past decade living and teaching overseas in Slovakia, Turkey, Indonesia, Azerbaijan, India, and Japan. He now lives in New Orleans.