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When I first held you

When I first held you

22 critically acclaimed writers talk about the triumphs, challenges, and transformative experience of fatherhood
EssaysSelf-Help & Psychology
Pages
276
Published
2014
Language
English

Synopsis

Becoming a father can be one of the most profoundly terrifying, exhilarating, life-changing occasions in a man's life. Now 22 of today's masterful writers get straight to the heart of modern fatherhood in this incomparable collection of thought-provoking essays. From making that ultimate decision to have a kid to making it through the birth to tangling with a toddler mid-tantrum, and eventually letting a teen loose in the world, these fathers explore every facet of fatherhood and show how being a father changed the way they saw the world--and themselves.

Prose complexity
7/10

Vibe

Thought-ProvokingReflectiveEmotionalInformative
Multiple POVs

Genres

Essays Self-Help & Psychology

Authors

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Brian Gresko

Brian Gresko writes about personal experiences with warmth and insight. His book, "When I first held you," offers readers a moving story about family.

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Dennis Lehane

Dennis Lehane is an American novelist born August 4, 1965, in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. He is best known for a series of hardboiled mysteries featuring Boston private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, beginning with A Drink Before the War (1994), and for standalone novels including Mystic River, Shutter Island, The Given Day, and Small Mercies. Four of his novels have been adapted into films: Mystic River (2003, directed by Clint Eastwood), Gone Baby Go...

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Lev Grossman

Lev Grossman is an American novelist and journalist, born June 26, 1969 in Concord, Massachusetts. He is best known for the #1 New York Times bestselling Magicians trilogy — The Magicians, The Magician King and The Magician's Land — and also wrote the novels Warp, Codex and The Bright Sword, plus the children's books The Silver Arrow and The Golden Swift. He was a book critic and the lead technology writer at Time magazine from 2002 to 2016. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.