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Abbott, Alysia
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Fiction
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2013
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English
β 496 KB
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My Father Before Me: A Memoir
β Scribed by Forhan, Chris
- Book ID
- 108999117
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 3 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781501131264
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
An award-winning poet offers a multi-generational portrait of an American familyβweaving together the lives of his ancestors, his parents, and his own coming of age in the 60s and 70s in the wake of his father's suicide, in this superbly written, "fiercely honest" (Nick Flynn) memoir.
The fifth of eight children, Chris Forhan was born into a family of silence. He and his siblings learned, without being told, that certain thoughts and feelings were not to be shared. On the evenings his father didn't come home, the rest of the family would eat dinner without him, his whereabouts unknown, his absence pronounced but not mentioned. And on a cold night in 1973, just before Christmas, Forhan's father killed himself in the carport.
Forty years later, Forhan "bravely considers the way he is and is not his father's son" (Larry Watson), digging into his family's past and finding within each generation the same abandonment, loss, and silence in which he was raised. Like Ian...
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