Actress Sonya Walger's stunning autobiographical novel charts the remote love of a gregarious but absent father. This father is always out of reach, physically and emotionally away. He is snorting cocaine in the bathroom. He is leaving without a goodbye. He is in prison. He is in the bed of a new woman. He is driving race cars and jumping out of airplanes. From a childhood spent shuttling between her British mother's calm and measured life in London and her Argentinian father's rootless existence, and into thriving adulthood, our protagonist's perspective of her father shifts. In many ways the novel becomes an anchor, an artifact, a life vest thrown through time across the river separating life and death, a last attempt to reconcile the father who was never enough with the man who was always too much.
I loved it.