Fatherland
A Novel
24 April 2026
Territory Rights — Worldwide.
Description
A tale of the American dream on the rocks. A legacy of broken promises, deceit and perseverance against the backdrop of family commitment
Martin and Lora Brier, with three young children, possess all the trappings of a perfect life… except Martin is having yet another affair. Without warning, he abandons the family for his mistress.
Set in a prosperous midwestern town in the 1950s, Fatherland is a story about the effect of convenient lies and discovered truths. While Martin’s abandonment throws up new difficulties for bewildered Lora, a housewife, who must now find a way to nurture and provide for herself and children, it unleashes a swirl of emotions in their daughter, Josie, who struggles to come to term with his absence. Fatherland follows Josie across many decades and milestones, and through the phases of her tenuous, emotionally fraught relationship with Martin–and the way she moves beyond their shared past. Written in Victoria Shorr’s inimitable clean, spare prose, Fatherland is a powerful, layered novel of a family in the aftermath of deception.
Reviews
"I’m hooked on [Victoria Shorr’s] gorgeous prose." — John Densmore, drummer for The Doors, author of Riders on the Storm
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