Martin and Lora Brier, with three young children, possess all the trappings of a perfect life…except Martin is having yet another affair. Without warning, he abandons the family for his mistress and a new house on the other side of town. Set in a prosperous midwestern town in the 1950s, FATHERLAND is a story about the effect of convenient lies and discovered truths. While Martin’s abandonment throws up new difficulties for bewildered Lora, a housewife who now must find a way to nurture and provide for herself and their children, it unleashes a swirl of emotions in their daughter, Josie, who struggles to come to term with his absence. The novel follows Josie from this fateful event, across many decades and milestones and through the phases of her tenuous, emotionally fraught relationship with Martin.