{"product_id":"9780735234062","title":"Just Let Me Look at You: On Fatherhood","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom a Giller-nominated, multiple award-winner, here is a tender, wry and unforgettable memoir of all the things fathers and sons fail to say to each other, for readers of Plum Johnson's \u003ci\u003eThey Left Us Everything\u003c\/i\u003e, David Adams Richards's \u003ci\u003eLines on the Water\u003c\/i\u003e, and Helen Macdonald's \u003ci\u003eH is for Hawk.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBill Gaston's relationship with his father was stormy. Sons clash with fathers, particularly with towering, authoritarian figures like Gaston Senior. Fairly or unfairly, sons look for reasons to rebel, particularly against boring suburban fathers who seem to prize conformity above all else. And fairly or unfairly, sons judge their fathers when they can't handle their booze.\u003cbr\u003e     But even a father and son as doomed to clash as Gaston and his father could fish together. When they were shoulder-to-shoulder, joined in shared anticipation and common purpose, gazing at the waves of the Pacific Ocean, they were no longer betrayed by their differences. When Gaston's father dies, this is the memory of his father that he keeps alive.\u003cbr\u003e     In the years that follow, however, he learns more about his father's realtionship with \u003ci\u003ehis\u003c\/i\u003e father. It too was marked by heavy drinking, though it took a much darker turn.\u003cbr\u003e     What Gaston comes to realize is that the man his younger self had been so eager to judge was in fact capable of near-heroic feats of self-mastery. And as a father of grown sons himself, he acutely feels the wounds he must have inflicted years before by withholding so much he now knows that fathers long for. \u003cbr\u003e     Returning to the past, Gaston goes back to those times in the boat, and comes to understand his own story anew as he sees his father in a new light.\u003cbr\u003e     Warm, often funny, and alive to all the ways in which the words for love so often come too late, \u003ci\u003eJust Let Me Look at You\u003c\/i\u003e captures a father's inexpressible tenderness for a child and the longing he feels when that child becomes a man.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Canada","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47027829506288,"sku":"9780735234062","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780735234062_p0.jpg?v=1763627711","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780735234062","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}