![]() ![]() From the author of the no.1 New York Times bestselling novel The Book Thief. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. A memoir about a man whose daughter transitions, a memoir about what it means to both of them to be a man. Deeply thoughtful, searingly honest and exquisitely lyrical, Fathers and Sons is an exploration of fatherhood, masculinity, authenticity and family. ![]() ![]() Most of all, this is a story about love - its necessity and fragility, and its unequalled capacity to enable us to be who we are. Saved by love and responsibility, Cunnell charts his journey from anger to compassion, as his daughter Jay realizes he is a boy, and a son. Still he felt compelled to destroy the relationships that mattered to him. ![]() Starting with his own childhood in the Sussex beachlands, Howard tells the story of the years of self-destruction that defined his young adulthood and the escape he found in reading and the natural world. Now, years later, he is a father, and his daughter is becoming his son. Behold, and rejoice.' - Tim Winton, author of Cloudstreet Was he thinking, do I have to be this kind of boy to survive? Is this what being a boy is? As a boy growing up on the south coast of England, Howard Cunnell's sense of self was dominated by his father's absence. There is so much aching love in this book, such pain and beauty. ![]()
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