Daddy love - Joyce Carol Oates

Daddy Love was stern and yet loving. Each act of disobedience, however small, would be immediately punished. And when the child obeyed, and was a true son to Daddy Love, he would be rewarded.

The child would learn quickly.

They all did.

Five-year-old Robbie can still remember his mother. He was snatched out of her hands in a shopping mall parking lot. Now he has a new father, Daddy Love, a strange preacher who punishes him when he is bad. In the blurred edges of Robbie's young mind, he knows he must escape. But he is just a little boy. What can he do to survive? 

Daddy Love is a taut, compelling tale of evil, terror and survival. A story of every parent's nightmare, a mother's defiant love, and the inexplicable resilience of children. This is the new novel from the towering imagination of Joyce Carol Oates.