My Father's Glass Eye is Jeannie's struggle to honour her father, her larger-than-life hero, but also the man who named her after his daughter from a previous marriage, a daughter who died. After his funeral, Jeannie spends the next decade in escalating mania, in and out of hospitals - increasingly obsessed with the other Jeanne. Obsession turns to investigation as she plumbs her childhood awareness of her dead half-sibling and hunts for clues into the mysterious circumstances of her death. It becomes a puzzle she she must solve to better understand herself and her father. Jeannie pulls us into her unravelling with such intimacy that her insanity becomes palpable, even logical. A brilliant exploration of the human psyche, My Father's Glass Eye deepens our definitions of love, sanity, grief, and recovery.
ISBN: | 9780715653777 |
Publisher: | Duckworth Books |
Imprint: | Duckworth |
Published date: | 19 Sep 2019 |
DEWEY: | 306.8742092 |
DEWEY edition: | 23 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 275 |
Weight: | 254g |
Height: | 130mm |
Width: | 197mm |
Spine width: | 22mm |