蘭迪•蘇珊•梅爾斯（Randy Susan Meyers）長期關注傢庭暴力與受虐者，並在相關的保護組織Common Purpose工作達8年之久。她曾在與人閤作的專著《夫婦與小孩》（Couples with Children）中討論相關問題。本書是她的第一部長篇小說，被眾多媒體與讀書會譽為2010/2011年度全球最受歡迎的處女作小說，在30個國傢發行，斬獲2010年美國文學協會圖書奬、法國ELLE雜誌十新書奬、2011年亞馬遜圖書俱樂部處女作小說奬、美國公共廣播電颱有聲圖書奬、布魯剋林“名人讀書俱樂部”處女作小說奬等50餘項大奬。目前她在波士頓教授小說寫作。

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Lulu and Merry's childhood was never ideal, but on the day before Lulu's tenth birthday their father propels them into a nightmare. He's always hungered for the love of the girls’ self-obsessed mother; after she throws him out, their troubles turn deadly. Lulu had been warned not let her father in, but when he shows up drunk, he's impossible to ignore. He bullies his way past Lulu, who then listens in horror as her parents struggle. She runs for help, but discovers upon her return that he's murdered her mother, stabbed her five-year-old sister, Merry, and tried, unsuccessfully, to kill himself.

Lulu and Merry are effectively orphaned by their mother’s death and father’s imprisonment. The girls’ relatives refuse to care for them and abandon them to a terrifying group home. Even as they plot to be taken in by a well-to-do family, they come to learn they’ll never really belong anywhere or to anyonethat all they have to hold onto is each other.

For thirty years, the sisters try to make sense of what happened. Their imprisoned father is a specter in both their lives, shadowing every choice they make. One spends her life pretending he's dead, while the other feels compelled--by fear, by duty--to keep him close. Both dread the day his attempts to win parole may meet with success.

A beautifully written, compulsively readable debut, The Murderer's Daughters is a testament to the power of family and the ties that bind us together and tear us apart.