The Sorrows of an American

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After their father's funeral, Erik and Inga Davidsen find a cryptic letter from an unknownwoman among his papers, dating from his adolescence in rural Minnesota during the Depression. Returning to his psychiatric practice inNew York,Erik sets about reading his father's memoir, hoping to discover the man he never fully understood. At the same time, another woman enters Erik's lonely, divorced life -- a beautiful Jamaican who moves into hisgarden flatwith her small daughter. As Erik gets drawn into the cat-and-mouse tactics of someone who appears to be stalking her, he finds out that his sister Inga is also being threatened, bya journalistin possession of a wounding secret from her past. A multi-layered novel that probes the mysteries of the heart and mind, THE SORROWS OF AN AMERICAN is compulsive, thought-provoking and profoundly affecting -- a novel that resonates long beyond the last page.

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The eagerly awaited new novel by the author of the international bestseller, WHAT I LOVED, about the ghosts that haunt families from one generation to the ...

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