Love Let Go: Reflections, Confessions, Encouragements, and a Few Cautionary Forewarnings from a Father to a Daughter [Paperback]

What are the right words to use when someone we love leaves home for school, a new job, or for extended travel? How to compress so many memories, feelings, and emotions? When do words of advice, counsel, or wisdom work best?Love & Let Gosets out to achieve this impossible task—and succeeds! The author’s daughter is about to leave home to continue her education. In thirty-five brief chapters, he offers reflections, encouragements, words of love and support, and more. This book is a totally honest, intimate, and wonderfully literary reflection of the author’s own experiences and responses. It can be read privately, read aloud between parent and child, or shared with friends...or just to appreciate lifelong familial bonds.“This book casts a warm light on a father and daughter enjoying some great times together.” —Gordon Lightfoot, singer and songwriter
 “By turns funny, insightful, and moving, O’Brien ... makes me want to be a better parent to my own teens.” —Vicky Alvear Shecter, author ofCleopatra Rules! The Amazing Life of the Original Teen Queen
 “These shared stories resonate with deep feeling, wisdom and courage.” —Camilla Gibb, award-winning author of four novels and a memoir
 “Delightful, clever, and downright laugh-out-loud funny. What a lucky daughter!” —Linda Nielson, author ofBetween Fathers & Daughters, and former president of the American Coalition for Fathers and ChildrenPeter O’Brienis the author or editor of eight previous books, includingCleopatra at the Breakfast Table: Why I Studied Latin With My Teenager and How I Discovered the DaughterlandandA Perfect Offering: Personal Stories of Trauma and Transformation(Mosaic Press, 2020). His writing skills and unique perspectives have been widely praised.This book is a totally honest, intimate, and wonderl