Eugene, the father in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus, a story about post-colonial Nigeria, is a respected Catholic businessman, praised for his big heart and community activism, who beats his family mercilessly. For the story of another bad dad, read The Great Stork Derby, based on an actual 1926 Toronto contest in which a husband pressures his wife to have babies for cash and, fifty years later, learns the true meaning of fatherhood. Read more about the book in NOVELS.
