Stephen Prothero

The Father You Get

Christian Living

“What to do when you are dead set on not becoming the father you got? Take a road trip to dig up dirt on a deadbeat covered head to toe in it, reckon with his drunken neglect without prettying it up, and set it all down in indelible prose that exposes your own fatherly insecurities alongside the saving grace of your mother. A high-wire act of a ‘my-damn-dad’ memoir shuttling between anger and acceptance, doubt and faith.”