Dad's Maybe Book

Tim O'Brien, a National Book Award-winning novelist, decided in 2003, as an older father, to give his young sons what he wished his own father had given him—a few scraps of paper signed "Love, Dad". It could be a piece of advice, a sentence or two about a long-ago Christmas Eve, or scattered glimpses of their rapidly aging father, a man they may never truly know. For the next fifteen years, the author wrote letters to his sons, pretending they were adults and imagining what they might want to hear from a father who was no longer alive.

O'Brien moves through a wide range of human experiences and emotions, from soccer games to warfare to risqué lullabies, from alcoholism to magic shows to history lessons to bittersweet bedtime stories, but always returns to a father's soul-saving love for his sons. Dad's Maybe Book is the result, a funny, tender, wise, and enduring literary achievement that will squeeze the reader's heart with joy and recognition.

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