Teaser Tuesday 4/20 Father of the Rain

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.

Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

1. Grab your current read
2. Open to a random page
3. Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
   BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
4. Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

"On the porch we stand laughing and panting together with our clothes at our feet and our puppy spinning in joyful circles and my father grinning his biggest grin and looking at me like he loves me, truly loves me, more than anyone else he's ever loved in his life." --- Father of the Rain by Lily King (July 2010)

Publisher's summary: In her most ambitious novel to date, critically acclaimed author Lily King sets her sharply insightful family drama in an upper-middle-class East Coast suburb where she traces a complex and volatile father-daughter relationship from the 1970s to the present day.

When eleven-year-old Daley Amory’s mother leaves her father, Daley is thrust  into a chaotic adult world of competition, indulgence, and manipulation. Unable to place her allegiance, she gently toes the thickening line between her parents’  incompatible worlds: the increasingly liberal, socially committed realm of her  mother, and the conservative, liquor-soaked life of her father. But without her mother there to keep him in line, Daley’s father’s basest impulses and quick rage are unleashed, and Daley finds herself having to choose her own survival over the father she still deeply loves.

As she grows into adulthood, Daley retreats from the New England country- club culture that nourished her father’s fears and addictions, and attempts to live outside of his influence. Until he hits rock bottom.

Faced with the chance to free her father from sixty years worth of dependency, Daley must decide whether  repairing their badly broken relationship is worth the risk of losing not only her  professional dreams, but the love of her life, Jonathan, who represents so much of  what Daley’s father claims to hate, and who has given her so much of what he  could never provide.

A provocative and masterfully told story of one woman’s life-long, primal  loyalty to her father, Father of the Rain is a spellbinding journey into the emo tional complexities, mercurial contours, and magnetic pull of families.

What's your Teaser, today? Is it from a good reading group pick?