Father of the Rain (Lily King)

This is the story of the rocky, frustrating, heartbreaking relationship between a father and daughter. It begins when the daughter is 11 and her parents get divorced, and she spends the next years of her life visiting him every weekend. He is never abusive, but he is often an inappropriate, angry, outrageous drunk. The book then moves on to her as a young adult, with loving relationship and a tenure-track professorship at Berkley, but her father's health issues drag her back to his home as she tries to help him climb up from rock bottom. The third part of the story deals with her life years after that. In the middle of the book I became frustrated with her, but at the end the story was uplifting and satisfying as a clear portrait of a deeply flawed man.