The Unquiet Daughter, Danielle Flood
The Unquiet Daughter, Danielle Flood
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The Unquiet Daughter

Author: Danielle Flood

Narrator: Jo Anna Perrin

Unabridged: 11 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/29/2017


Synopsis

Danielle Flood, a journalist born of the wartime love triangle that inspired the one in Graham Greene's The Quiet American, searches for her father after surviving a bizarre youth of privilege, estrangement, and cruelty.

As she yearns for her father's love and presence, Danielle's beautiful French and Vietnamese mother leaves her in burlesque house dressing rooms in the American Midwest, in convent schools in Long Island and Dublin, and with strangers in New York City. Meanwhile she lies to Danielle about their past for decades in this sometime-humorous near-tragic love story between a daughter and a mother and more.

In the end we learn if Flood's journey through the truth of what happened between her parents in early 1950s' Saigon satisfies her life-long quest for who she is.

About Danielle Flood

Danielle Flood has been a staff reporter for the Associated Press, the Daily News, the Standard-Star, the Evening Sun, the Clearwater Sun, and the Miami News. Her freelance features have been published in the New York Times and in many magazines, including the Sunday News Magazine, New York, and Miami. She has an MS from the Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University, and a BA from Fordham. She lives in Southern Maine with her husband, the artist, Jim Morin.


Reviews

This is a very well-written memoir. Much of it deals with the inner turmoil of a confused little girl who tries to make sense of her mother's strange, sometimes abusive, behaviour. Later in the book the little girl, now grown up, tries to make sense of her mother's early life and the circumstances o......more

Goodreads review by Peggy

This is a riveting memoir written by a woman who traces her parentage to the fictional characters in Graham Green's book The Quiet American. It takes her years to uncover her own heritage, then more years to discover why Graham Green may have used her parents and stepfather as central characters in......more