“This novel conveys, in a controlled, lucid and elegant manner, the confusions and longings of a daughter whose father only knows how to relate to women as romantic objects. The dynamics between him, her husband, and her vain stepmother, provide a taut and tense narrative about the quest for individuality and connection. It’s also a formally inventive book—while still being deeply accessible—about how much we can know about others, and how well we can know ourselves. Claudia Dey describes feelings and struggles I haven't encountered in other novels. I loved this beautiful book.” —Sheila Heti, author of Pure Colour

“Daughter is a breathtaking and brilliant novel about the exquisite pain and agony that comes from loving and needing certain people in our lives to love us back, to love us better. It is also about how we are relentless animals, wild and searching, trying to get our crushed, hungry bodies into our wolf packs. I loved this beautifully written book and was profoundly moved by it, so uncompromising and so true.” —Miriam Toews, author of Fight Night

“In Daughter, Claudia Dey writes beautifully about the special claustrophobia of family and how it can rearrange both art and life.” —Raven Leilani, author of Luster

“I am a huge fan of Claudia Dey’s and I will go wherever she takes me with her prose—always elegant, yet brimming with colour and sharpness, it never fails to breathe new life. I loved Daughter in all its gorgeous power.” —Sophie Mackintosh, author of Blue Ticket

“Daughter is so true to how life feels in its brief bursts and flash cuts. The spare and electric prose is like birds alighting on a single tree, making sense of the 50,000 directions they have come from. I gasped. I teared up. This book entered my soul. Daughter is about where we are bound and where we are free. It is original, seductive and so alive. It is always moving forward. Claudia Dey is a phenomenal and profound writer, and with Daughter, she has drawn a perfect circle.” —Leslie Feist, musician

“Daughter reads like a thrilling fever dream. Claudia Dey has figured out the recipe for a novel that becomes a climate, as immersive, honest, and addictive as family.” —Marie-Helene Bertino, author of Parakeet