Lulu and Merry are orphaned sisters with the nightmare tale leaving their mother dead and their father imprisoned. Lulu blames her father not only for the death of their mother, but for stealing their innocents and future.
The sisters grow up complete opposites, one successful while the other is lost in the trauma of their past. Throughout the story you gain a great insight to the drifting relationships and angst towards their father.
Does time served really out rule the heartache of killing? The question that Lulu and Merry are plagued with when their father reveals that he is seeking parole after serving years for their mothers death. In his journey however, he also seeks the forgiveness of his daughters.
Meyers portray of each woman's thoughts and feelings of their situation is very well detailed and drawn out for the reader. Everyone responds differently to traumatic events, children especially when all they knew was that the person who hurt them was the one that was suppose to take care of them.
Lulu and Merry's stories are real in the context that they happen every day throughout the world. While it may not be murder, it could be death, rape, or illness, children use different coping mechanisms. Lulu spent years escaping what her father had done to her by burying her nose in a book while Merry's trust in men dwindles into loveless, sexually driven relationships.
The question is how would you handle living through a traumatic experience like theirs? Knowing that the one person you used to trust hurt you the most? Would you want to keep them in your life? Is blood really thicker?
All of these are ones that Lulu and Merry faced constantly. Their minds and concepts of the situation grew drastically different as they grew up. Lulu refused to admit that her father was a murder while Merry finds comfort in giving her own attacker company at the prison. Forgiveness on his acts however, are not handed over easily. They are riddled with contempt and anger that will give both woman lessons of themselves that not even they could expect.
The book itself rest on emotions that are very rarely brought to the forefront of American literature as the main focus. Hope, redemption, forgiveness and fear; all make up the world of The Murderer's Daughters.
Does time served really out rule the heartache of killing? The question that Lulu and Merry are plagued with when their father reveals that he is seeking parole after serving years for their mothers death. In his journey however, he also seeks the forgiveness of his daughters.
Meyers portray of each woman's thoughts and feelings of their situation is very well detailed and drawn out for the reader. Everyone responds differently to traumatic events, children especially when all they knew was that the person who hurt them was the one that was suppose to take care of them.
Lulu and Merry's stories are real in the context that they happen every day throughout the world. While it may not be murder, it could be death, rape, or illness, children use different coping mechanisms. Lulu spent years escaping what her father had done to her by burying her nose in a book while Merry's trust in men dwindles into loveless, sexually driven relationships.
The question is how would you handle living through a traumatic experience like theirs? Knowing that the one person you used to trust hurt you the most? Would you want to keep them in your life? Is blood really thicker?
All of these are ones that Lulu and Merry faced constantly. Their minds and concepts of the situation grew drastically different as they grew up. Lulu refused to admit that her father was a murder while Merry finds comfort in giving her own attacker company at the prison. Forgiveness on his acts however, are not handed over easily. They are riddled with contempt and anger that will give both woman lessons of themselves that not even they could expect.
The book itself rest on emotions that are very rarely brought to the forefront of American literature as the main focus. Hope, redemption, forgiveness and fear; all make up the world of The Murderer's Daughters.
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