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"I got four yrs . old when my father returned to kidnap me," starts this gripping memoir about Matousek's seek out James Matousek, the drifter father he never knew. Explained by the New York Times as "part reminiscence, part detective history, part religious musing," this memoir is more than the storyline of one man's seek out his father; additionally it is a look at this is of life and exactly how fathers contribute to that meaning. Growing up in a family group of stressed women (Matousek's sister dedicated suicide when the author was 29), he identifies the turmoil of growing up "fatherless in the us" - an experience shared by an incredible number of children in what sociologists have called age the Absent Dad - and the difficult, in the end successful, struggle to figure out what being a man really means in a day and age of shifting explanations, developing sexuality, and "breaking out the person box" of stereotyping and patriarchy. With the tension of a enigma history, the climax occurs when Matousek fulfills a man he believes to be his daddy. But is he? And does indeed Matousek, who may have reconciled with his mother as she lay dying, really worry? These are just two questions resulting in this memoir's surprising conclusion.
