Uncovering Silent Secrets: The Untold Conversations in “What My Father and I Don’t Talk About”

Uncovering Silent Secrets: The Untold Conversations in "What My Father and I Don’t Talk About"

Perhaps I was foolish to review this beautiful collection—my father died when I was fourteen, and the weight of what he and I can’t talk about is ever-present in my psyche—but the strength of these varied essays lies in the depictions of the many different ways we relate to our fathers. Some of the authors speak to what they discovered they had in common with their fathers; Ms. Filgate filters her interactions with her father, for example, through the lens of their shared attention-deficit disorder.

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