About this item
"McGlynn's trek through young parenthood -- missteps, brawls, avalanches, and all -- is as entertaining and shrewd as any book I've read in some time." -- James McManus, author of Positively Fifth Street A fresh and funny family portrait that captures the joys, moral ambiguities, and absurdities of raising boys in modern-day America Fatherhood caught David McGlynn by surprise. His sons arrived in quick succession -- the first when the author was a dirt-poor student and the second not long after he'd moved his family across the country to start a new job in bucolic Wisconsin. As a result, McGlynn found himself colliding with fatherhood, at once scared to death and utterly thrilled. Just like many new fathers, he hopes he's doing the right thing -- but he's never quite sure.
About the Author
DAVID McGLYNN was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and grew up in Houston, Texas and Orange County, California. He graduated in 1998 with a B.A. in English and Philosophy from the University of California, Irvine. He received an M.F.A. in 2001 and a Ph. D. in 2006 from the University of Utah, where he also served as Managing Editor of Western Humanities Review. His fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Image, Mid-American Review, Shenandoah, and other literary journals. He currently teaches at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, where he lives with his wife and sons. A lifelong swimmer, he was captain of the swimming and diving team at UC Irvine. He captured a national championship in the 500-yard freestyle at the 2001 United States Masters Nationals. He now competes in open-water races, and on most mornings is the first one in the pool.
