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David Rodeback
Fathers Day: A Boy's Story
Fathers Day: A Boy's Story
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"Some boys’ fathers taught them to fish and play basketball and fix cars. At worst, they taught their sons to curse when they are angry or to sit around drinking beer and watching television in the evening and on holidays, while the women work.
"My father taught me to run away."
It's the early 1970s in an American university town. The Vietnam War rages overseas, and antiwar sentiment simmers at home. The culture of free love and homegrown marijuana finds, on most days, an uneasy truce with the masses of ordinary people, who are simply trying to eke out ordinary lives.
Five-year-old Joey's world rapidly expands to include school, church, a best friend who comes and goes, a major change in his family, social issues he doesn't quite understand, and economic challenges he doesn't yet appreciate. Joey's hard-working, single mom struggles to make ends meet, while Joey discovers, in his five-year-old way, the ups and downs of tornadoes, prairie dogs, recess, dictionaries, prowlers, friendship, running away, arson, and health care -- all while trying to figure out which people in his little world are hippies, and which are "people like us."
More a book for adults about childhood than a book for children, this charming and gentle tribute to mothers, fathers, and little boys invites readers to bask in their own childhood memories. The essential qualities of childhood transcend place and time, and every five year old is in some sense a philosopher.
"My father taught me to run away."
It's the early 1970s in an American university town. The Vietnam War rages overseas, and antiwar sentiment simmers at home. The culture of free love and homegrown marijuana finds, on most days, an uneasy truce with the masses of ordinary people, who are simply trying to eke out ordinary lives.
Five-year-old Joey's world rapidly expands to include school, church, a best friend who comes and goes, a major change in his family, social issues he doesn't quite understand, and economic challenges he doesn't yet appreciate. Joey's hard-working, single mom struggles to make ends meet, while Joey discovers, in his five-year-old way, the ups and downs of tornadoes, prairie dogs, recess, dictionaries, prowlers, friendship, running away, arson, and health care -- all while trying to figure out which people in his little world are hippies, and which are "people like us."
More a book for adults about childhood than a book for children, this charming and gentle tribute to mothers, fathers, and little boys invites readers to bask in their own childhood memories. The essential qualities of childhood transcend place and time, and every five year old is in some sense a philosopher.
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