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Playing Catch with Strangers: A Family Guy (Reluctantly) Comes of Age

Playing Catch with Strangers: A Family Guy (Reluctantly) Comes of Age

Brody, Bob

Paperback

Biographies GeneralHumorGeneral Parenting

ISBN10: 1942762399
ISBN13: 9781942762393
Publisher: Heliotrope Books LLC
Published: Jun 20 2017
Pages: 230
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.52 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

New York City essayist Bob Brody only recently reached a milestone long overdue -- he's shown signs of finally resembling a full-fledged adult. In vignettes by turns heartbreaking, harrowing and hilarious, he chronicles his upbringing with deaf parents, getting stabbed in the chest five weeks after moving into his first apartment, and almost blowing his first date with his future wife thanks to a drunken remark. Here, too, Brody recounts his 10-year estrangement from his mother, confesses to committing a boyhood misdeed against his father, and reveals how a criminal running toward him and his wife with a gun in his hand forced him to prove once and for all how much he loved her. Ultimately, Playing Catch with Strangers celebrates Brody's still-ongoing struggle to achieve adulthood, revealing his occasional successes -- and frequent failures -- trying to be a good son, a good husband, a good father, and yes, even a good son-in-law.

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