His Family

Roger Gale is an aging New York widower who once promised his dying wife that he would go on living through their children. Keeping that promise proves harder than he expected as his three grown daughters pull in different directions: one anchored to home and family, one pouring herself into the crowded schools of immigrant children, one chasing pleasure and money. Around them the city roars into the modern age, and Roger struggles to understand a world moving faster than he can follow. Ernest Poole won the very first Pulitzer Prize for the Novel with this tender, clear-eyed portrait of a father, his daughters, and a changing America. Free to download as a PDF or EPUB.