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Dad Era
Paperback
Publisher Price: $18.95
ISBN13: 9781552455234
Publisher: Coach House Books
Published: May 12 2026
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.40 Width: 4.60 Depth: 6.90
Language: English
An irreverent, laugh-out-loud pastiche of free verse, hallmark card, bad truism, picture book, advice website, and meditative reflection on fatherhood.
This collection compels readers to ask what it means to share a heart with another human in a world on the precipice of destruction. Although Abel doesn't have an answer and likely never will, he understands deeply that 'the bond between a parent and child can sometimes be explained with words.' Here - brilliant, hilarious, and loving - are those words.
Dad Era explores Jordan Abel's role as a father to his daughter, Phoenix, and his relationship to popular and often toxic constructions of 'fatherhood' on the internet. Breaking apart the idiomatic registers that define parenting today using distortion, contrast, sequencing, and palimpsest, all qualities that have come to define his oeuvre, Abel explores what it means to live, laugh, and yes, father 'in a world without dads.'
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