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. |