The Daughters by Ben Rogers - 9781647792015

The DaughtersA Novel\nAuthor(s): Ben Rogers\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Nevada Press, United States\nImprint: University of Nevada Press\nISBN-13: 9781647792015, 978-1647792015\nSynopsis\nRenowned - albeit washed-up - author Peter Zemeckis's new neighbor, Dr. Nancy Chu, has just been fired as director of IBM's Silicon Valley lab. She retreats down the coast to La Jolla to lick her wounds, moving into the home of her late ex-husband and evicting their estranged daughter in the process. Is Nancy retired? Is she a failure? She isn't sure. Neither is Zemeckis. In search of distraction, she takes up metal detecting - only to unearth some things she's been trying to bury. \n Spanning from Amarillo, Texas, in 1977 to Joshua Tree, California, in 2012, The Daughters is a kaleidoscopic meditation on family, memory, and the invisible forces that bind us. Narrated by Zemeckis, the novel interweaves small-town rodeos with amateur radios, teen angst with parental love. Shard by sha.