Fathers and Daughters: Three Memoirs

In her debut memoir, Bandit: A Daughter’s Memoir, Molly Brodak recounts her childhood and attempts to make sense of her complicated relationship with her bank-robbing father. In his memoir, Falling: A Daughter, A Father, and A Journey Back, Elisha Cooper has to face his daughter’s illness and understand his new world—how it changes art and language and laughter—as he holds on to the protective love he feels for his child. In Danielle Flood‘s memoir, The Unquiet Daughter, a journalist born of the wartime love triangle that inspired the one in English novelist Graham Greene’s The Quiet American searches for her British father after barely surviving a bizarre youth of privilege, bewilderment, cruelty and estrangement.