Monday, June 21, 2010

The Council of Dads: My Daughters, My Illness, and the Men Who Could Be Me by Bruce Feiler



The author discovers that he has a cancerous growth in his leg and begins a year of chemotherapy and surgery. With an uncertain prognosis, he is confronted with the fact that he may die, leaving his three-year-old twin girls without a father. He sets out to create a Council of Dads, a group of male friends from his life that could impart fatherly wisdom and guidance should need be.

The chronicling of the author’s year of medical treatment and the effects on him and his family were touching, but the descriptions of each guy friend were more blurry and forgettable.

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