As a caseworker at a homeless shelter, Nick Flynn, author of the memoir Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, meets his estranged father, a self-proclaimed poet and ex-con who served time in a federal prison for bank robbery. If Flynn weren’t such a funny writer, the book would be too painful to read. For the story of another bad dad, read The Great Stork Derby, based on an actual 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.
