The Only True Genius in the Family
By Jennie Nash
(Berkley Trade, Paperback, 9780425225752, 304pp.)
Publication Date: February 2009
Categories: Family Life
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Selected by Indie Booksellers for the March 2009 Indie NotablesFrom the author of The Last Beach Bungalow: a portrait of a family-in all its heartbreaking complexity.
Though she lives in the shadow of her legendary landscape photographer father, and is the mother of a painter whose career is about to take off, Claire has carved out a practical existence as a commercial photographer. Her pictures may not be the stuff of genius, but they've paid for a good life.
But when her father dies, Claire loses faith in the work she has devoted her life to-and worse, begins to feel jealous of her daughter's success. Then, as she helps prepare a retrospective of her famous father's photographs, Claire uncovers revelations about him that change everything she believes about herself as a mother, a daughter, and an artist...
Jennie Nash is also the author of the nonfiction book The Victoria's Secret Catalog Never Stops Coming: And Other Lessons I Learned from Breast Cancer.











