Stories for Boys (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780983477587)

In this memoir of fathers and sons, Gregory Martin struggles to reconcile the father he thought he knew with a man who has just survived a suicide attempt; a man who had been having anonymous affairs with men throughout his thirty-nine years of marriage; and who now must begin his life as a gay man. At a tipping point in our national conversation about gender and sexuality, rights and acceptance, "Stories for Boys" is about a father and a son finding a way to build a new relationship with one another after years of suppression and denial are given air and light.
Martin's memoir is quirky and compelling with its amateur photos and grab-bag social science and literary analyses. Gregory Martin explores the impact his father's lifelong secrets have upon his life now as a husband and father of two young boys with humor and bracing candor. "Stories for Boys" is resonant with conflicting emotions and the complexities of family sympathy, and asks the questions: How well do we know the people that we think we know the best? And how much do we have to know in order to keep loving them?


Author: Gregory Martin
ISBN-10: 0983477582
ISBN-13: 9780983477587
Publisher: Catapult
Language: English
Published: 08/28/2012
Pages: 274
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.50w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Shelf Awareness 10/23/2012
Foreword 12/03/2012