{"product_id":"book-bx9y","title":"My Father Before Me","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn award-winning poet offers a multigenerational portrait of an American family—weaving together the lives of his ancestors, his parents, and his own coming of age in the 1960s and ’70s in the wake of his father’s suicide, in this superbly written, “fiercely honest” (Nick Flynn) memoir.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe fifth of eight children, Chris Forhan was born into a family of silence. He and his siblings learned, without being told, that certain thoughts and feelings were not to be shared. On the evenings his father didn’t come home, the rest of the family would eat dinner without him, his whereabouts unknown, his absence pronounced but not mentioned. And on a cold night in 1973, just before Christmas, Forhan’s father killed himself in the carport.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForty years later, Forhan bravely considers the way he is and is not his father’s son, digging into his family’s past, and finding within each generation the same abandonment, loss, and silence in which he was raised. Like Ian Frazier in \u003ci\u003eFamily\u003c\/i\u003e or Frank McCourt in \u003ci\u003eAngela’s Ashes\u003c\/i\u003e, Forhan shows his family members as both a part and a product of their time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy Father before Me\u003c\/i\u003e is a family history, an investigation into a death, and a stirring portrait of growing up in an Irish Catholic childhood, all set against a backdrop of America from the Great Depression to the Ramones.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarrying the literary scope of memoirists Geoffrey Wolff and J. R. Moehringer with the intensity of family novels like \u003ci\u003eThe Corrections\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWe Are Not Ourselves\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMy Father before Me\u003c\/i\u003e is the kind of epic, immersive memoir that comes along once in a decade.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49347354886448,"sku":"BDbx9y","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/201443-bx9y-Square.jpg?v=1734202615","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-bx9y","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}