The Catch : A Novel

✍ Scribed by Alison Fairbrother

• Book ID: 110610457
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 325 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780593134306

✦ Synopsis

A young woman searches for the truth about her father --and the secrets of her family--in this electric debut novel.
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" This ​big-hearted debut ​absolutely crackles with smarts."--Emma Straub, author of All Adults Here
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Two years out of college, Ellie Adler has a job in journalism, an older lover, and a circle of smart friends. Her beloved father, James, who has children from three marriages, unites the family with his gentle humor and charisma, but Ellie has always believed she is her father's favorite. When he suddenly dies, she finds herself devastated by the unexpected loss. Then, at the reading of his will, she learns that instead of leaving her his prized possession--a baseball that holds emotional resonance for them both--he has left her a seemingly ridiculous, even insulting gift. Worse, he's given the baseball to someone no one in the family has ever heard of.
In her...