The Father You Get
And the Ones You Make, Believe In, and Become
$51.70
- Hardcover
222 pages
- Release Date
22 September 2025
Summary
In a world of imperfect-at-best and bad-at-worst dads, what is the ideal of fatherhood we aspire to? Why does this ideal exist?
What is it about fathers and father figures that looms so large in the lives of so many? So wonders Patton Dodd in this intimate reflection and memoir in which he wrestles with a dad-sized hole, the gap between the father he yearned to have and the father he got—an absent-while-present alcoholic whose unreliability caused chaos for everyone a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781506486987 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1506486983 |
| Author: | Patton Dodd |
| Publisher: | Augsburg Fortress Publishers |
| Imprint: | Broadleaf Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 222 |
| Release Date: | 22 September 2025 |
| Weight: | 318g |
| Dimensions: | 146mm x 222mm |
Patton Dodd
Patton Dodd is the executive director of storytelling and communications for the H. E. Butt Foundation in San Antonio, Texas. Along with overseeing communications strategy for the organization, he runs Know Your Neighbor, a program that uses storytelling to build bridges across San Antonio’s economic divides. Dodd is a longtime journalist and essayist whose work has appeared in the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Financial Times, Newsweek, Slate, CNN.com, and Christianity Today. He holds a doctorate in religion and literature from Boston University and served as an instructor of English, composition, and film studies at the United States Air Force Academy. His books include My Faith So Far and The Prayer Wheel.
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