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The Book of Dads: Essays on the Joys, Perils, and Humiliations of Fatherhood
The Book of Dads Essays on the Joys Perils and Humiliations of Fatherhood Author:Ben George (Editor) When editor Ben George became a father and went looking for advice on Amazon, the search engine replied to his query, 'Fatherhood' by asking him 'Did you mean, 'motherhood'?'. With each day of his daughter's life, he was learning how unprepared he was, and so he set about contacting some of his favorite writers in sea... more »rch of the unvarnished info on fatherhood. "The Book of Dads" offers readers unrivaled insights into the complexity of fatherhood as it's experienced now. It is a literary reader for the contemporary dad, hip and on point, but also substantive, with an eye toward becoming a classic that readers return to again and again over the years. And it covers the spectrum of fatherhood experiences.
Stories Include:The Night Shift by Ben Fountain, The Chaos Machine by Charles Baxter, In Ten Years He’s Got a Chance to Be Thirty by Jim Shepard, The Job, by the Numbers by Clyde Edgerton, What I Can Offer by Neal Pollack, Candy Man by Rick Bragg, Nine Times (Among Countless Others) I’ve Thought About the People Who Came Before Us in My Brief Career as a Father by Anthony Doerr, For Ella by Michael Thomas, Zeke by Davy Rothbart, Fault by Richard Bausch, Here Comes the Sun by Nick Flynn, Comparative History by Brandon R. Schrand, Notes from Adolescence by Rick Bass, A Year in the Life of a Homebound Wanderer, Master Avery in Attendance by Sebastian Matthews, The Sleepwalker by Jennifer Finney Boylan, Everyone into the Bunker! by Steve Almond, A Tale of Two Fathers by David Gessner, Eleven Thoughts on Being the Father of Eleven-Month-Old Twin Boys by Darin Strauss, Remember the Banana by Brock Clarke, and The Points of Sail by Sven Birkerts« less