Deal of the Day — George Bishop, Jr.’s TO MY DAUGHTER ON HER FIFTEENTH BIRTHDAY, in which a mother seeks reconciliation with her runaway daughter by recounting in a letter the story of her own troubled adolescence, revealing why her parents sent her away to a Catholic boarding school, how her long-distance love affair with a boy in Vietnam ended in tragedy, and offering her something her mother never told her: the truth about how a girl grows up, the truth about life to Random’s Jane von Mehren and Libby McGuire in a very major two-book deal at auction by agent Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff Literary Agency. World English.