Even though I am a professional book knower who likes to keep on top of what’s coming, every so often I want to pick up a book and just surprise myself.

The only thing I knew about “Lion” by Sonya Walger is that it is published by New York Review Books, known for specializing in original, highly literary works, and that the author is an actress, who played Penny in “Lost” and Molly Cobb in “For All Mankind.”

“Lion” is an autobiographical novel exploring Walger’s relationship with her father, an Argentinian national, a classic rogue who swept Walger’s teenage English mother off her feet, resulting in the daughter who would grow up to write this stunning novel. The novel is an attempt to understand the man, his life, his death and the force of a daughter’s love despite betrayal and absence

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