{"product_id":"daddy-boy-emerson-whitney-9781952119521","title":"Daddy Boy","description":"In 2017, Emerson Whitney was divorcing the woman they'd been with for ten years--a dominatrix they called Daddy. Living in a tent in the backyard of their marital home, Emerson was startled to realize they didn't know what it meant to be an adult. \"We often look to our gender roles as a sort of map for aging,\" they write. \"I wanted to know what the process looked like without that: not man-ness, not-woman-ness.\" Dizzied by this realization, they turned to an activity steeped in stereotypical masculinity: storm chasing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaddy Boy \u003c\/i\u003efollows Emerson as they pack into a van with a rag-tag group of storm chasers and drive up and down tornado ally--from Texas to North Dakota--staying in motels and eating at gas stations and hunting down storms like so many white whales.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn heading with them to Texas, we return, too, to the only site of adulthood Emerson has ever known: their childhood. Interspersed throughout this trip are memories of dad--both Emerson's stepdad, Hank, present and unflinching and extremely Texan; and their biological dad, who they hardly knew. With his cowboy hats and random girlfriends, he always seemed so sweet and lost.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough these childhood vignettes, coupled with queer theory and weeks spent reading the clouds like oracles, wanting nothing more than to drive straight into the eye of a storm, Emerson frames these probing questions of manhood against the dusty, loaded background of the American West.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Emerson Whitney\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1952119529\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781952119521\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e McSweeney's\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/27\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.70w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/27\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/27\/2023","brand":"Emerson Whitney","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48153884066047,"sku":"9781952119521","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c1b76df1-3329-455b-86ed-4f1d7f176edf.jpg?v=1770786481","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/daddy-boy-emerson-whitney-9781952119521","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}