Stories for Boys: A Memoir

By Gregory Martin

Book Overview

In this memoir of fathers and sons, Gregory Martin struggles to reconcile the father he thought he knew with a man who has just survived a suicide attempt; a man who had been having anonymous affairs with men throughout his thirty-nine years of marriage; and who now must begin his life as a gay man. At a tipping point in our national conversation about gender and sexuality, rights and acceptance, Stories for Boys is about a father and a son finding a way to build a new relationship with one another after years of suppression and denial are given air and light. Martin's memoir is quirky and compelling with its amateur photos and grab-bag social science and literary analyses. Gregory Martin explores the impact his father's lifelong secrets have upon his life now as a husband and father of two young boys with humor and bracing candor. Stories for Boys is resonant with conflicting emotions and the complexities of family sympathy, and asks the questions: How well do we know the people that we think we know the best? And how much do we have to know in order to keep loving them?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0983477582
• ISBN13: 9780983477587
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Hawthorne Books
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.9"