I Don't Know Who My Father Was

She was born Karen Alexander, though even that turned out to be a malevolent fiction. The person she thought was her father had married her mother Claire while she was pregnant by a man who had abandoned her. As a child, Kathy knew none of this arcane history, only a mysterious sense of alienation and wrongness. She finally discovered her real father's name by accident in 1974. Harry Lehman Jr. was the descendant of a family who had made a fortune in hair tonics.