Every father's daughter : twenty-four women writers remember their fathers / selected and presented by Margaret McMullan ; with an introduction by Phillip Lopate.
Contributors & acknowledgments. Alice Munro -- Introduction / by Phillip Lopate -- Absences -- No regrets / Jane Smiley -- Christmas from now on / Patricia Henley -- My father's daughter / Bliss Broyard -- Secrets of the sun / Mako Yoshikawa -- Sol's exodus / Nancy Jainchill -- Lost & found -- My dad / Jill McCorkle -- My father's bible / Joyce Maynard -- Masters in this hall / Melora Wolff -- Crossing state lines / Jessica Woodruff -- A memory I chose / Jane Friedman -- Waiting for my father / Barbara Shoup -- The American father / Maxine Hong Kingston -- Presences -- Life saver / Ann Hood -- Reading my father / Alexandra Styron -- Gifts / Nancy McCabe -- Oxygen / Susan Neville -- What he worked for / Susan Perabo -- Do you see what I see? / Antonya Nelson -- Daddy's dime store / Lee Smith -- Balloons / Johanna Gohmann -- A relationship of words / Lily Lopate -- Burning the trees / Jayne Anne Phillips -- My fathers / Bobbie Ann Mason -- Working for a living / Alice Munro -- Contributors & acknowledgments.
Summary:
"What is it about the relationship between fathers and daughters that provokes so much exquisite tenderness, satisfying communion, longing for more, idealization from both ends, followed often if not inevitably by disappointment, hurt, and the need to understand and forgive, or to finger the guilt of not understanding and loving enough?" writes Phillip Lopate, in his introduction to this collection of 24 personal essays by women writers writing about their fathers.
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