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My Father Before Me
Scribner. Jun. 2016. 320p. ISBN 9781501131264. $26; ebk. ISBN 9781501131325. MEMOIR
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When poet and professor (English, Butler Univ.) Forhan was 14, and just before Christmas, his father, Ed, killed himself. Long a mysterious, absent presence in the lives of Forhan and his seven siblings, Ed turns out to have been a tremendously tormented and unhappy man, someone who never was able to make peace with life. This memoir does an extraordinary job of delving deep into Forhan's Irish American family, and his parents' own dysfunctional pasts. He is particularly brilliant when delineating the ways in which we inevitably carry on our family histories, no matter how we may try not to. Readers are also reminded about how we learn from our upbringings, and how this knowledge is essential to helping to make our own lives, and those of our children, not only different, but better.
VERDICT A wonderfully engrossing book. Essential for all parents and children, that is, all people. [See Prepub Alert, 11/30/15.]
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