When I first held you

By Anthony Doerr, Chris Bachelder, Dennis Lehane, Andre Dubus III, André Aciman, Ben Greenman, Steve Edwards, Benjamin Percy, Peter Ho Davies, Frederick Reiken, Darin Strauss, Lev Grossman, Garth Stein, Stephen O'Connor, Rick Moody, Karl Taro Greenfeld, Bruce Machart, Matthew Specktor, Alexi Zentner, Marco Roth, Brian Gresko, David Bezmozgis, Bob Smith, Justin Cronin

Subjects: Fatherhood, Fathers

Description: Becoming a father can be one of the most profoundly terrifying, exhilarating, life-changing occasions in a man's life. Now 22 of today's masterful writers get straight to the heart of modern fatherhood in this incomparable collection of thought-provoking essays. From making that ultimate decision to have a kid to making it through the birth to tangling with a toddler mid-tantrum, and eventually letting a teen loose in the world, these fathers explore every facet of fatherhood and show how being a father changed the way they saw the world--and themselves.