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My Daughters, My Illness, and the Men Who Could Be Me
HarperCollins
May 2010
On Sale: April 27, 2010
256 pages
ISBN: 0061778761
EAN: 9780061778766
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction | Self-Help
Bestselling author Bruce Feiler was a young father when he
was diagnosed with cancer. He instantly worried what his
daughters' lives would be like without him. "Would they
wonder who I was? Would they wonder what I thought? Would
they yearn for my approval, my love, my voice?"
Three days later he came up with a stirring idea of how
he might give them that voice. He would reach out to six men
from all the passages in his life, and ask them to be
present in the passages in his daughters' lives. And he
would call this group "The Council of Dads."
"I believe my daughters will have plenty of opportunities in
their lives," he wrote to these men. "They'll have loving
families. They'll have each other. But they may not have me.
They may not have their dad. Will you help be their dad?"
The Council of Dads is the inspiring
story of what happened next. Feiler introduces the men in
his Council and captures the life lesson he wants each to
convey to his daughters--how to see, how to travel, how to
question, how to dream. He mixes these with an intimate,
highly personal chronicle of his experience battling cancer
while raising young children, along with vivid portraits of
his father, his two grandfathers, and various father figures
in his life that explore the changing role of fathers in
America. This is the work of a master
storyteller confronting the most difficult experience of his
life and emerging with wisdom and hope. The Council of
Dads is a touching, funny, and ultimately deeply moving
book on how to live life, how the human spirit can respond
to adversity, and how to deepen and cherish the friendships
that enrich our lives.
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