by Phillip Toledano
appears in Pregnancy.
Phillip Toledano became a father at the age of forty. He fell in love with his daughter about a year and a half later, when he realized she was the most bewitching human being he'd ever seen. Initially, though, things were different. The Reluctant Father follows Phillip's journey at the beginning of fatherhood. The first eighteen months were a time...
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Consider Deacon King Kong by James McBride. Recommended by 4 sources.
“Starts with an arresting, oddly comic crime — an old church deacon shoots someone — then unfolds as a crowded, affectionate portrait of a south Brooklyn housing project and its witnesses. The value is in the distinct, often funny voices, moral ambiguity, and slow-building empathy: short scenes and asides turn small gestures into revealing character studies. Limitation: the many detours into backstory and tonal flips between humor and grief can make the middle feel meandering; readers wanting a tight mystery may feel impatient.”
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