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The Daily Stoic
It is a memoir about the author's relationship with his father, described as beautiful and moving, even causing the podcast host to almost break down in tears. The book details the complexities of their relationship and the gap they struggled to bridge.
When I read it I almost broke down in tears. It was just an absolutely beautiful book.
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It is a memoir about the author's relationship with his father, described as beautiful and moving, even causing the podcast host to almost break down in tears. The book details the complexities of their relationship and the gap they struggled to bridge.
When I read it I almost broke down in tears. It was just an absolutely beautiful book.
It reminded me of this this great essay that Kafka wrote called Letter to the Father.
It's about basically a young son struggling with a sort of an overbearing stern distant father and reckoning with this they're trying to get closer speaking very different languages having very different experiences.
It's not an abusive relationship by any means but there is something some gap that they struggle to close and it's a haunting moving memoir I absolutely loved it.
I'm going to start carrying the painted porch half the way home a memoir of Father and Son