The Doctor's Daughter (30 page)
HILMA WOLITZER is the author of several novels, including Hearts,
Ending,
and
Tunnel of Love,
as well as the nonfiction book
The Company of Writers.
She is a recipient of Guggenheim and NEA fellowships, and an Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. She has taught writing at the University of Iowa, New York University, and Columbia University. Hilma Wolitzer lives in New York City.
ALSO BY HILMA WOLITZER
NOVELS
Tunnel of Love
Silver
In the Palomar Arms
Hearts
In the Flesh
Ending
NONFICTION
The Company of Writers
FOR YOUNG READERS
Wish You Were Here
Toby Lived Here
Out of Love
Introducing Shirley Braverman
The Doctor’s Daughter
is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
2007 Ballantine Books Trade Paperback Edition
Copyright © 2006 by Hilma Wolitzer
Reading group guide copyright © 2007 by Random House, Inc.
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
BALLANTINE and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc. READER’S CIRCLE and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
1. Fathers and daughters—Fiction. 2. Children of physicians—Fiction. 3. Parent and adult child—Fiction. 4. Adult children of aging parents—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3573.O563D63 2006
813’.54—dc22 2005048142
eISBN: 978-0-307-41700-8
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