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Forhan, Chris, 1959-
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Forhan, Chris, 1959- -- Childhood and youth.
Forhan, Chris, 1959- -- Family.
Fathers -- Death -- Biography.
Fathers and sons -- Biography.
Suicide victims -- Family relationships -- Biography.
Dysfunctional families -- Biography.
Silence -- Psychological aspects.
Irish Americans -- Biography.
Catholics -- United States -- Biography.
Poets, American -- 21st century -- Biography.
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Forhan, Chris, 1959-
Forhan, Chris, 1959- -- Childhood and youth.
Forhan, Chris, 1959- -- Family.
Fathers -- Death -- Biography.
Fathers and sons -- Biography.
Suicide victims -- Family relationships -- Biography.
Dysfunctional families -- Biography.
Silence -- Psychological aspects.
Irish Americans -- Biography.
Catholics -- United States -- Biography.
Poets, American -- 21st century -- Biography.
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My
father
before
me
: a
memoir
/ Chris Forhan.
by
Forhan, Chris, 1959-
Scribner, 2016.
Call #:
362.28 F721m
Subjects
Forhan, Chris, 1959- -- Childhood and youth.
Forhan, Chris, 1959- -- Family.
Fathers -- Death -- Biography.
Fathers and sons -- Biography.
Suicide victims -- Family relationships -- Biography.
Dysfunctional families -- Biography.
Silence -- Psychological aspects.
Irish Americans -- Biography.
Catholics -- United States -- Biography.
Poets, American -- 21st century -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781501131264 (hc.)
Edition:
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Description:
310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Summary:
"The fifth of eight children, Chris Forhan was born into a family of silence. His mother and
father
often sat in the same room but exchanged no words. 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 unspoken. And on a cold night just
before
Christmas 1973, long after dinner, the rest of the family asleep, Forhan's
father
killed himself in the garage - a new silence. Forty years later, Chris speaks into the quiet his
father
left behind, 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 Family or Philip Roth in American Pastoral, Forhan shows his family as both a part and a product of its time. A family history, an investigation into a death, and a stirring portrait of an Irish Catholic childhood, all set against a backdrop of America from the Great Depression to Elvis Costello. Lucidly and unflinchingly, Forhan attempts to understand his
father
and ultimately himself in order to avoid passing his family's silence on to his children. To separate this silence from the introversion that inspires him as a writer, he courageously confronts it, telling the story that his family will not tell, and piecing together the fragments of the life that his
father
chose to leave. American poet Chris Forhan teaches at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Genre:
Memoirs.
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