The dazzling new novel by the author of the international bestseller, WHAT I LOVED. After his father s funeral, Erik sets about reading his father s memoir hoping to discover the man he never fully understood. Meanwhile, a woman enters Erik s lonely life. As he gets drawn into the cat-and-mouse tactics of someone who is stalking her, he finds out that his sister is also being threatened, by a journalist in possession of a wounding secret from her past .A multi-layered novel, THE SORROWS OF AN AMERICAN is a thought-provoking and profoundly affecting novel about the secrets and ghosts that haunt families.