After Visiting Friends: a Son's Story
marygaby says:
The blurb on the back of the book is almost misleading. The story of how Michael Hainey's father dies is ancillary to the stories about Hainey's relationship with his mother, the affect his father's death has had on him throughout his life and the struggles between seeking the truth and holding on to the stories that help us get through the tough parts of day-to-day life. Though Hainey's terse writing style can be irritating early in the book, it grows into something deeply emotion...al as he shares more details about his journey and his life. His internal exploration about family relationships, secrets and truth vs. stories are what make this book compelling. If what you want is a book about simply solving a mysterious death, this is not for you.
Ashley says:
This book is a mystery solved through investigative journalism, and with fiercely contained emotion. When author Michael Hainey was 6 years old his father died suddenly, and this is the story of his family's stoic struggles and about growing up haunted by fatherlessness. It is narrated mostly in the present tense, in a unique voice that is weird but compelling; kind of like reading a newspaper article, but also like listening to a kid telling a big story in a rush. The father, Bob Hainey, was a newspaperman; he met his wife Barbara at work at Chicago's Sun-Times, he'd followed his older brother into the newspaper business, and son Michael gravitated to journalism as well. Following the 5 W's (what, where, when, why and how), Hainey tracks down clues and sources, pays tribute, gains closure, educates and entertains.MoreLess
The blurb on the back of the book is almost misleading. The story of how Michael Hainey's father dies is ancillary to the stories about Hainey's relationship with his mother, the affect his father's death has had on him throughout his life and the struggles between seeking the truth and holding on to the stories that help us get through the tough parts of day-to-day life. Though Hainey's terse writing style can be irritating early in the book, it grows into something deeply emotion...al as he shares more details about his journey and his life. His internal exploration about family relationships, secrets and truth vs. stories are what make this book compelling. If what you want is a book about simply solving a mysterious death, this is not for you.
Ashley says:
This book is a mystery solved through investigative journalism, and with fiercely contained emotion. When author Michael Hainey was 6 years old his father died suddenly, and this is the story of his family's stoic struggles and about growing up haunted by fatherlessness. It is narrated mostly in the present tense, in a unique voice that is weird but compelling; kind of like reading a newspaper article, but also like listening to a kid telling a big story in a rush. The father, Bob Hainey, was a newspaperman; he met his wife Barbara at work at Chicago's Sun-Times, he'd followed his older brother into the newspaper business, and son Michael gravitated to journalism as well. Following the 5 W's (what, where, when, why and how), Hainey tracks down clues and sources, pays tribute, gains closure, educates and entertains.MoreLess
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