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The Murderer's Daughters
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The Murderer's Daughters (2010) (edit title/settings)

by Randy Susan Meyers (Author) (edit contributors)

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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... read more

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Lulu and Merry's childhood was never ideal, but on the day before Lulu's tenth birthday their father drives them into a nightmare. He's always hungered for the love of the girl's self-obsessed mother. After she throws him out, their troubles turn deadly.

Lulu's mother warned her to never... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

Lulu and Merry's childhood was never ideal, but on the day before Lulu's tenth birthday their father drives them into a nightmare. He's always hungered for the love of the girl's self-obsessed mother. After she throws him out, their troubles turn deadly.

Lulu's mother warned her to never let him in, but when he shows up, he's impossible to ignore. He bullies his way past ten-year-old Lulu, who obeys her father's instructions to open the door, then listens in horror as her parents struggle. She runs for help and discovers upon her return that he's murdered her mother, stabbed her sister, and tried to kill himself.

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. Though one spends her life pretending he's dead, while the other feels compelled to help him, both fear that someday their imprisoned father's attempts to win parole may meet success.

The Murderer's Daughters is narrated in turn by Merry and Lulu. The book follows the sisters as children, as young women, and as adults, always asking how far forgiveness can stretch, while exploring sibling loyalty, the aftermath of family violence, and the reality of redemption.

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  • Lulu: Lulu is some what a type of hardy. Doesn't like attention and makes it hard to come to terms with her. She is what you could say the opposite of her sister Merry.
  • Grandma Zelda: Lulu and Merry's grandmother on their dads side.
  • Drew: Lulu's husband.
  • Doctor Cohen: Merry and Lulu's foster father
  • Cassandra: Lulu's daughter
  • Mimi Rubee: Lulu and Merry's Grandmother on their mother's side
  • Cilla: Lulu and Merry's aunt on their mother's side
  • Quinn: Married man who with whom Merry has an affair.
  • Merry: Merry is a sweet heart. She forgives people easily and doesn't like seeing the ones she loves hurt or angry with each other.
  • Duffy: Orphanage where Lulu and Merry live when they are young children.
  • Marta: Lulu's friend in medical school.
  • Victor: Client of Merry's.
  • Kelli: One of Merry's best friends at Duffy-Parkman
  • Valerie: One of Merry's friends at Duffy's
  • Michael: Add a description of this character.
  • Hal: Aunt Cilla's husband, Lulu and Merry's uncle
  • Henry: Lulu's first real boyfriend
  • Anne: Merry and Lulu's foster mother
  • Jesse: Merry's client
  • Janine: Merry's friend at Duffy
  • Jerry
  • Hillary: Lulu's "special friend"
  • Rachel: Eleanor's daughter
  • Maureen
  • Reetha: One of the girls at Duffy that bullied Merry
  • Mrs. Sachs: the mother of Hillary, Lulu's "special friend" at Duffy
  • Eleanor: Anne and Dr. Cohan's daughter
  • Susannah: A lady that Merry and Grandma Zelda met at the Prison while she was visiting her husband.
  • Gary
  • Mrs. Vincent
  • Louise: Lulu's real name
  • Parkman
  • Teenie: Lulu and Merry's mother's best friend who lived in an apartment a floor below them.
  • Mrs. Parker: She runs Duffy-Parkman Home for Girls
  • Sophie
  • Joey: Lulu and Merry's dad, Grandma Zelda's son
  • Denton
  • Paul: Anne's husband.
  • Arnie
  • Ms. Zachariah
  • Mary
  • Colin
  • Mcnulty: Guard at the prison that Lulu and Merry's dad is held at
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  • “How could I sleep with a man I wasn't sure would attend my funeral?”
    Merry
  • “Women aren’t supposed to do that. We’re supposed to be all oh, I’m too fat and no, really, look, my eyes are much too close together, but my looks were my only reliable source of comfort. I worried I’d already held on to them way past their sell- by date, worrying at my skin, my hair, my profi le, poking at them like a kid with a half- shredded teddy bear. I’d end up one of those raddled old women walking around with licorice- colored hair and straw- berry blush caked in my wrinkled cheek”
    Merry
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  • “Maybe when we recognize the trivial for what it is, we can concentrate on what we love most, what we most treasure.”
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  • “Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Helen Keller”
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  • When you love someone, you’re curious about everything he does, everything he is.
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  • “But you can’t return to the source of your pain to heal the wounds.”
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  • ‘Withholding forgiveness is like being in a prison. The person who will not forgive is the one locked inside the four walls.’
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  • “Children bring us closer to God, but sometimes so close we get burned. All my hardest moments, where I truly believed I might die from fright, were around my children.”
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  • Kids drained everything but blood from you, their maturation feeding off molecules siphoned directly from the nearest adult in charge.
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  • “You know what I’ve learned?” Audra said. “Dying is easier than watching your children in pain.”
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  • odalisque. Compared to Merry, I was an Amish schoolmarm crossed with Grandma Zelda. “I don’t think he’d care either way.”
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First Sentence edit see section history

I wasn't surprised when Mama asked me to save her life.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Randy Susan Meyers (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: January 2010
ISBN: 0312576986
Page Count: 320

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  • Library of Congress: Domestic Fiction
  • Dewey: 813.6

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