Man in the Moon: Essays on Fathers and Fatherhood [Paperback]

Science claims it will one day be able to eliminate fathers from the equation by mating bone marrow with ovum. When that day comes, I imagine this book, along with a handful of other works (King Lear, Fun Home) will become even more necessary. Herein find the blueprints for the mystery, the maps for the uncharted, the keys to the archetype.
Nick Flynn, author of?The Reenactments?and?Another Bullshit Night in Suck City

At this moment, I find myself at loose ends, lost in the various vacuums left by my father's dying and my sons' departures out into the voids. Yet this stunning constellation of essays centered me, became for me fine instruments of reckoning of where to stand in the ceaseless entropic dynamic of kin, of paternal keening. These waxing meditations demonstrate the inflationary universe, the heft and velocity of that big ol' nothing. They elegantly fill, with sober hope and the balm of joy, the terrifying, infinite spaces between those waning stars.
Michael Martone, author of?Michael Martone?and?Four for a Quarter

What an unreachable mystery the father is, preoccupied, unknowable, pervasive. In these fascinating essays, a shared portrait emerges as writers articulate the perpetual puzzle of the father and, with grace and candor, explore what it means to not know him, to never know him. As one voice, these essays investigate the manhis inventories, his myths, his mere traceswho makes up our horizons, who forever shimmers there beyond our collective grasp.
Susanna Sonnenberg, author of?Her Last Death?and?She Matters: A Life in Friendships

Selected from the country's leading literary journals and publicationsCrazyhorse,Colorado Review,The Nervous Breakdown,Creative Nonfiction,Georgia Review,Gulf Coast,The Missouri Review,The Normal School, and othersMan in the Moonbrings together esl³q