My childhood in western Kansas "middle of nowhere" country was more privileged than I could have possibly understood at the time. Everybody I knew had a father, most of them seemed pretty awesome, and mine was the best of them all. But fathers are disappearing, says Paul Raeburn in his fascinating little book Do Fathers … Continue reading Data on the Difference Dads Make
Marilynne Robinson's Pulitzer-prizewinning Gilead is a book for our contentious time. I'd picked up a copy when it first became a best seller, but this year when I went through my shelves looking for books I'd bought but hadn't yet read, its weathered green spine beckoned. When I broke the book open, Gilead began the … Continue reading Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead: A Merciful Mind for Our Contentious Time
"The details of this story are true," Newberry-winning author Lois Lowry writes of her beautiful father-daughter story, Crow Call. "but parenst and children groping toward understanding each other--that happens to everyone. And so this story is not really just my story, but everyone's." It is indeed. Lowry's Crow Call is a masterful evocation of the … Continue reading Crow Call: Beautiful Children’s Book for Fathers and Daughters
