Best-selling author Tim OâBrien shares wisdom from a life in letters, lessons learned in wartime, and the challenges, humor, and rewards of raising two sons.
A moving audio edition of Tim OâBrienâs poignant memoir, read by the author âWe are all writing our maybe books full of maybe tomorrows, and each maybe tomorrow brings another maybe tomorrow, and then another, until the last line of the last page receives its period.â
In 2003, already an older father, National Book Awardâwinning novelist Tim OâBrien resolved to give his young sons what he wished his own father had given to himâa few scraps of paper signed âLove, Dad.â Maybe a word of advice. Maybe a sentence or two about some long-ago Christmas Eve. Maybe some scattered glimpses of their rapidly aging father, a man they might never really know. For the next fifteen years, the author talked to his sons on paper, as if they were adults, imagining what they might want to hear from a father who was no longer among the living.
OâBrien traverses the great variety of human experience and emotion, moving from soccer games to warfare to risquĂ© lullabies, from alcoholism to magic shows to history lessons to bittersweet bedtime stories, but always returning to a fatherâs soul-saving love for his sons.
The result is Dadâs Maybe Book, a funny, tender, wise, and enduring literary achievement that will squeeze the readerâs heart with joy and recognition.
