Victoria Shorr Fatherland review and informatie of the novel by the American author. W.W. Norton will publish the new Victoria Shorr novel on March 10, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.
Victoria Shorr Fatherland reviews and information
Whenever a review of Fatherland, the novel by Victoria Shorr, appears in the media, we’ll highlight it on this page.
- “I’m hooked on Victoria Shorr’s gorgeous prose.” (John Densmore, drummer for The Doors, author of the song Riders on the Storm)
- “Written with the same absorbing authenticity as works by Ann Napolitano, Ann Patchett, and Anne Tyler, Shorr’s compassionate rendition of divorce’s devastation depicts a wife’s betrayal, a daughter’s denial, and a husband’s selfishness with piercing accuracy.” (Booklist)
Fatherland
- Author: Victoria Shorr (United States)
- Book type: American novel
- Publisher: W.W. Norton
- To be released: March 10, 2026
- Length: 256 pages
- Format: hardback / ebook
- Prize: $ 29.99
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Victoria Shorr Fatherland reviews and information
Whenever a review of Fatherland, the novel by Victoria Shorr, appears in the media, we’ll highlight it on this page.
- “I’m hooked on Victoria Shorr’s gorgeous prose.” (John Densmore, drummer for The Doors, author of the song Riders on the Storm)
- “Written with the same absorbing authenticity as works by Ann Napolitano, Ann Patchett, and Anne Tyler, Shorr’s compassionate rendition of divorce’s devastation depicts a wife’s betrayal, a daughter’s denial, and a husband’s selfishness with piercing accuracy.” (Booklist)
Blurb of the new Victoria Shorr novel
A tale of the American dream on the rocks. A legacy of broken promises, deceit, and perseverance against the backdrop of family commitment.
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 must now find a way to nurture and provide for herself and children, it unleashes a swirl of emotions in their daughter, Josie, who struggles to come to term with his absence. Fatherland follows Josie from this fateful event, across many decades and milestones and through the phases of her tenuous, emotionally fraught relationship with Martin—and the way she begins to move beyond their shared past.
Written in Victoria Shorr’s inimitable clean, spare prose, Fatherland is a powerful, layered novel of a family in the aftermath of deception.
Victoria Shorr is the author of four works of fiction, including the acclaimed novel The Plum Trees, which was listed as a New York Times Recommended Historical Fiction selection for 2021. Victoria Shorr has lived in Taos, Brasil and Los Angeles, and is now back in New York. She is married to writer/film maker John Perkins, and has three children and six grandchildren.