"Intelligent and laden with surprises... Marvelous." Lorrie Moore, author of I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

Will Sorley, a native Californian, is barely surviving his days teaching college in rural Pennsylvania when he receives an email from a teenage girl in Kenya claiming to be his long-lost daughter.

This explosive note leads to a trip halfway around the globe to find this young woman and uncover more about her enigmatic mother, while trying to stay connected to his new girlfriend.

Swerving from the comic to the tragic, For You I Would Make an Exception follows Will from Pennsylvania to Kenya, San Francisco to India as his life expands in ways he never imagined.