false 31247736 1283500 2255282 0670019003 9780670019007 113 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256056419m/2255282.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256056419s/2255282.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2255282.Somebody_Else_s_Daughter 3.32 398 A psychological thriller of secrets, dark motives, and an adoption buried in the past

At the center of Elizabeth Brundage's new novel lies an adoption under stressed and tragic circumstances. Willa, brought up in elegant prosperity, is now a student at the prestigious Pioneer School. But her biological father, a failing writer and former drug addict, can't live with himself without seeing her again.<

In this idyllic Berkshires landscape, Willa's adoptive parents have fled a mysterious past; a feminist sculptor initiates a reckless affair; teenagers live in a world to which adults turn a blind eye; and the headmaster's wife is busy keeping her husband's disastrous history and current indiscretions well hidden. The culmination of these forces is the collision of two very different fathers - biological and adoptive - and a villain whose ends and means slowly unfold with the help, witting and unwitting, of all around him. Somebody Else's Daughter delivers an electric, suspenseful tale of richly conflicted characters and the disturbed landscape of the American psyche.]]> 47980 3.37 1866 446 2008 0 0 false Mon Dec 07 11:36:11 -0800 2009 Tue Aug 26 12:54:55 -0700 2008 Mon Dec 07 11:36:11 -0800 2009