Dead Daddy Issues

Tarot reader Leia Sparks has always believed in fate, but as she stands over her father's coffin she can't help but wonder if he'd still be alive if she hadn't messed with his.

Haunted by a secret guilt, Leia confesses her story to a Catholic Priest, recalling her fateful move back to her conservative hometown to fix her relationship with the teenage kids she'd lost custody of. Propelled by an ominous psychic reading, Leia is determined to stay one step ahead of fate and break her family's generational cycles of dysfunction, but her return is full of challenges: a punishing ex-husband, judgmental locals, not to mention the haunting reminders of her parent's scandalous divorce 20 years before; thank goodness she has her wild best friend, Sadie, the one person who would never betray her.

When Leia’s charming, alcoholic, and estranged father, Leo, shows up on her doorstep looking to make amends, she believes it’s fate and lets him move in, turning her world upside down and forcing her to make unthinkable decisions for her family’s future.

Dead Daddy Issues is a raw and lyrical 'coming-of-middle-age' family drama about a woman’s struggle to fix her family and make peace with her father, while he challenges her ideas about forgiveness, fate, and sacrifice.
For fans of The Push by Ashley Audrain and The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath.

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