The Family Man

Elinor Lipman, Jonathan Davis

Rated: 3.56 of 5 stars
3.56 · 18 ratings · 320 pages · Published: 01 Jan 2009
The Family Man by Elinor Lipman, Jonathan Davis
A hysterical phone call from his ex-wife and a familiar face in a photograph upend Henry Archer’s well ordered life. They bring him back into contact with the child he adored, a short-term stepdaughter from a misbegotten marriage long ago. Henry is a lawyer, an old-fashioned man, gay, successful, lonely. Thalia is now twenty-nine, an actress hopeful, estranged from her newly widowed crackpot mother—Denise, Henry’s ex. Hoping it will lead to better things for her career, Thalia agrees to pose as the girlfriend of a former sitcom star and current horror-movie luminary who is down on his romantic luck. When Thalia and her complicated social life move into the basement of Henry’s Upper West Side townhouse, she finds a champion in her long-lost father, and he finds new life—and maybe even new love—in the commotion.

ELINOR LIPMAN is the author of eight previous novels, including The Inn at Lake Devine and My Latest Grievance, winner of the Paterson Fiction Prize. In 2001 she won the New England Book Award for Fiction. The film, Then She Found Me, directed by and starring Helen Hunt, is based on her first novel.

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