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In this collection of essays, Michael Chabon delivers a handful of funny, heartfelt messages on what fatherhood really means. In the book’s first essay, Chabon opens up about a writer he met who ...
Dad is the second novel by the American novelist William Wharton. It is "a story of fathers and sons drawn from [the author's own] relationship with his own dying father". [1] The novel was published in 1981 following Birdy (1978). It deals with a Paris-based American artist who is called to his mother's bedside as she has had a serious heart ...
Common Sense Media found the book to be "sensitive, captivating, and, just put simply, a great read." [4] Simon Mason of The Guardian thought that the author's "evocation of 'Asperger thinking' is impressive and sensitively managed, but such narrowing of the focus reinforces the story's programmatic nature" and concluded, "In the end, like Caitlin's drawings, Mockingbird is a neat outline in ...
The Notebook Trilogy is a collection of books by Hungarian writer Ágota Kristóf, written in the French language.It tells the story of originally unnamed identical-twin brothers who live with their grandmother in a small village and border town of a war-torn country during an unspecified war.
The title of the book refers to the role of the protagonist, 11-year-old Parvana, who is forced by circumstances to be the breadwinner for her family during the Third Afghan Civil War. For her research, the author spent several months interviewing women and girls in refugee camps in Pakistan, and used these interviews as the basis of her ...
Muong Vithy is the main character of Little Brother. Vithy has worked for a year in the Big Paddy, with his big brother Mang. Their sister, Sorei, and their mother and father are gone. They run away, trying to escape from the soldiers, the Khmer Rouge. They manage to get away, but not for long.
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Letters from a Father to His Daughter is a collection of letters written by Jawaharlal Nehru to his daughter Indira Nehru, originally published in 1929 by Allahabad Law Journal Press at Nehru's request and consisting of only the 30 letters sent in the summer of 1928 when Indira was 10 years old. He arranged a second edition in 1931 and ...