Happy Fathers’ Day: Good Dads, Bad Dads, and In-Between Dads
by | Jun 11, 2013 | Read Like a Writer |
| Some are good, some are bad, Daddy issues almost always make for interesting reading when you write about them well. Here, in honour of Fathers’ Day, are a few of our favourites, the good, the bad, and the in-between. |
| Good dads…
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance |
| Robert M. Pirsig |
| The narrator of this story gives his son Chris both a solid philosophy of life and the best road trip any father and son have ever gone on. |
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The Tender Bar |
| J.R. Moehringer |
| When Pulitzer-prizewinning memoirist J.R. Moehringer was growing up, he desperately wanted a dad. But he finds a whole room full of them when he starts follows his bartender uncle Charlie to work in this incredibly touching book. |
| Bad dads…
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Lullabies for Little Criminals |
| Heather O’Neill |
| Left to her own devices by her heroin-addicted father Jules, Baby, a dangerously naïve Montreal kid makes her way though the city alone. |
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A Wolf at the Table |
| Augustin Burroughs 9781429937658 |
| With his uncanny talent for delivering frank accounts of harrowing experiences, the author of Running with scissors turns his attention towards his enigmatic and terrifying father. |
| In-between dads…
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In-Between Dads |
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About a Boy |
| Nick Hornby |
| Will, who has spent most of his life free of responsibility, emotional or otherwise, finds himself an unwitting father figure to an eccentric young boy, and manages to grow up as a result. |
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Shit My Dad Says |
| Justin Halpern |
| Plenty of us find our parent’s unique turns of phrase to be funny, but only writer Justin Halpern has created a hit out of his dad’s, and anybody who reads his book is very glad he did. |
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