title: Father's Day: A Novel
author:  Simon Van Booy 
description: In this novel, Van Booy is at his most poignant, showing how redemption can arise from heartbreaking circumstances. (<i> Boston Globe</i>)<br /><br />Theres so much to enjoy along the way, from Mr. Van Booys muted lyricism to the profusion of quiet domestic moments rendered in the strangely captivating way of Andre Dubus. (Baylis Greene, <i>East Hampton Star</i>)<br /><br />In <i>Fathers Day</i>, Van Booy again deftly demonstrates that he is a master at the craft of storytelling. (<i>Portland Press Herald</i>)<br /><br />Moving, redemptive new novel...The third-person narrative gives both characters their own, distinctive voices that nonetheless change over time. Van Booy creates refreshing, humorous, yet poignant childhood milestones that the two reach with emotional honesty. (<i>Publishers Weekly</i> (starred review))<br /><br />Van Booys great triumph comes in using a family secret to underscore the message that family is as much a choice as a blood tie. Although any reader will find something to love here, someone who has benefited from a perfectly imperfect family will wear the widest smile. This little book with a big heart is suitable not just for Fathers Day, but for any day. (<i>Shelf Awareness</i>)<br /><br />[Van Booys] facility with word choice and sentence structure can leave a reader swooning...[a] movingly understated drama punctuated with moments of quiet reflection. (Barbara VanDenburgh, <i>Arizona Republic</i>)<br /><br />The moving account of a unique relationship between a parent and child, thrust together under the worst of circumstances. With fine, nuanced prose and much tenderness, Booy guides this unlikely father-daughter pair into a beautiful maturity, showing us with great heart what it really means to be a family. (Elizabeth Crane, author of <i>The History of Great Things</i>)
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  For you, Dad
  
  
  
  
  
  “First of the day, God willing, see you tomorrow.”
  
  
  
  
  
  —Harold Samuel Kepnes,
  
  
  
  
  
  January 29, 1947–November 13, 2012
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## 1
  
  
  
  
  
  YOU walk into the bookstore and you keep your hand on the door to make sure it
  doesn’t slam. You smile, embarrassed to be a nice girl, and your nails are
  bare and your V-neck sweater is beige and it’s impossible to know if you’re
  wearing a bra but I don’t think that you are. You’re so clean that you’re
  dirty and you murmur