Uncovering Silent Secrets: The Untold Conversations in “What My Father and I Don’t Talk About”
Although the risks of such an anthology include an unevenness of results (where some of the essays succeed and others languish), this work suffers from no such issues, and engaged this reader from start to finish.
The included authors offer a wide range of experiences and voices. Among them are personal favorites like Alex Marzano-Lesnevich and Maurice Carlos Ruffin, as well as writers whose work was new to me, including the powerful Susan Muaddi Darraj and Jaquira Díaz. From the title, the reader can infer that the essays will center on regret, but the work collected frequently moves beyond that emotion to bring the reader deeper into a consideration of the complicated ways our fathers love us and we, in turn, love our fathers.
