Finding the Father at Table

Thomas Wolfe in Look Homeward Angel asked, “Which of us has looked into his father’s heart?” In Finding the Father at Table, Cannon does this and clears a path for us with simple words and earthy images. Embodied metaphors of a boy’s prayer and a dancing girl dissolve mystery and reveal the sacredness of the commonplace. Longing splashed with hope and sadness washed with passionate concern reach the heart of the matter. There we “find the voice stronger than a whisper, more real than a memory”. This book is an important read for both men and women to embrace more firmly or for the first time the first man they got to know.