Tom Owens is a brilliant barefoot entrepreneur-a man who is wildly generous with strangers even as he resists any deeper claim on his affection. Into Owen's charmed life comes a ten-year-old girl whose claims he cannot ignore: his illegitimate daughter, Jane. As this raggedy, preternaturally observant girl seeks a place within Owen's circle of lovers and retainers. A Regular Guy depicts the miraculous chemistry that transforms longing into belonging and an arrogant boy-man into a father | A Regular Guy by Mona Simpson, Paperback | Indigo Chapters