Fathers, Sons, & Brothers

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Chapter 1: On the Garage
This is the last room: the garage. We've been in the new house more than a month already, each day thus far filled with putting away all we own, each day filled with trying to find order in chaos.

Chapter 1: On the Garage, Part 2
There is no there there in a carport, no sense of place other than one to park the car in; instead of riding bikes in the cool dark of a garage all summer long we stayed indoors, where it was air-conditioned, and watched Gilligan's Island reruns

Exploring three generations of the men in his family — his father and his two uncles, his own two brothers, and his two sons — Bret Lott spins a sweeping true saga of the ties that bind. With quiet grace and his trademark talent for finding powerful revelations in the most unlikely places, master novelist Lott delivers a bracingly personal and honest memoir that confronts the often inexpressible complexities of contemporary maleness. Fathers, Sons, and Brothers describes not only the ways men and boys relate to one another but also how their lives evolve over decades, endlessly imitative yet varied. In the end, these essays constitute a celebration of humanity, regardless of gender — of joy and sorrow, of intimacy and distance, of lingering secrets and universal truths.

Bret Lott is a native of Los Angeles. Jewel, his internationally celebrated novel of love and loss in 1940s Mississippi, was a national bestseller and a popular Oprah's Book Club™ selection. The author of four other highly acclaimed novels — The Man Who Owned Vermont, A Stranger's House, Reed's Beach, and The Hunt Club — Lott has also written two collections of widely anthologized short stories, A Dream of Old Leaves and How to Get Home.

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