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I Will Do Better: A Father's Memoir of Heartbreak, Parenting, and Love

I Will Do Better: A Father's Memoir of Heartbreak, Parenting, and Love

Bock, Charles

Hardcover

Biographies GeneralDeath & DyingGeneral Parenting

Publisher Price: $26.00

ISBN10: 1419774425
ISBN13: 9781419774423
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Published: Oct 1 2024
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
By turns comical and heartbreaking, I Will Do Better is the remarkable journey of two defiant and wounded people, and their personal growth in the name of love.

Named one of the Best Books of the Year by The New Yorker and Kirkus Reviews
Named one of the Best Books of the Fall by Oprah Daily and People

A uniquely forthright and powerful addition to the literature of fatherhood. (Kirkus)

The novelist Charles Bock was a reluctant parent, tagging along for the ride of fatherhood, obsessed primarily with his dream of a writing career.

But when his daughter Lily was six months old, his wife, Diana, was diagnosed with a complex form of leukemia. Two and half years later, when all treatments and therapies had been exhausted, Bock found himself a widower--devastated, drowning in medical bills, and saddled with a daunting responsibility. He had to nurture Lily, and, somehow, maybe even heal himself.

I Will Do Better is Charles's pull-no-punches account of what happened next. Playdates, music classes, temper tantrums, oh-so-cool babysitters, first days at school, family reunions, single-parent dating, and a citywide crippling natural disaster--were minefields especially treacherous for Charles and Lily because of their preexisting vulnerability: their grief.

Charles sought help from friends, family, and therapists, but this overgrown, middle-aged boy-man and his plucky child became, foremost, a duo--they found their way together.

This frank and tender memoir of parenting his infant daughter in the wake of of his wife's untimely death is bracingly honest [and] tender, commented Publshers Weekly. Single parents will find much to identify with in this warts-and-all account.

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