Description: The story's narrator, Henrietta Markham, is a recent Harvard graduate, who submits an early version as her honors thesis. She tells the tale in her own voice and the conjured voices of her relatives, both living and dead.
Review Quotes: "Michael Lieberman, well known as a poet, first ventured into fiction several years ago with the publication of Never Surrender - Never Retreat, A Novel of Medical Politics in Texas. Now in a stunning departure, he has written The Lobsterman's Daughter, the chilling tale of a young woman, who claims to write the history of her own dysfunctional family and submits it as her honors thesis at Harvard. Henrietta Markham summons the voices of the dead to travel a vein of murderous psychopathology that runs through five generations. The story, told from almost a dozen points of view, is a dazzling, noir thirller, that is at once a who-done-it and literary fiction. In a surprising twist the book morphs into a chronicle of the narrator's life as she reveals her own dark secret and her attempts at redemption. This amazing book is an American Heart of Darkness-you should not miss it."
--Paul Ruffin, PhD
Director, Texas Review Press