A touching memoir of life with an alcoholic father who secretly works with the CIA, a dark pilgrimage through the valley of depression and addiction, and findin

This book establishes fatherhood as an essential event for both the father and son's development and examines the relationship throughout the life cycle.

An award-winning poet’s “beautifully written” (The Seattle Times) portrait of an American family and his own coming of age in the 1960s and 1970s in the w

“I have always chased my father, chased after his love, chased him through his many changes. I chased him even when I thought I was running in the other direc

Winner of the PEN/Voelcker career achievement award in poetry Misgivings is C. K. William's searing recollection of his family's extreme dynamics and of his par