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These Boys
and
Their Fathers

"An absolute knockout of a memoir."

Ben Fountain, author of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

"Wide-ranging in its quest for understanding, These Boys and Their Fathers offers an emphatic record of the scars of abandonment."

The Boston Globe

These Boys and Their Fathers

"These Boys and Their Fathers blends memoir, reportage and fiction in a disquieting yet absorbing, bare-it-all plunge into manhood, family, and fatherhood."

The Oregonian

"Heartbreaking, ambiguous, funny and wise, These Boys and Their Fathers is the book so many of us have been waiting for."

Andrew Sean Greer, author of Less

"An extraordinarily powerful, moving, and urgent exploration of the crossroads between masculinity, paternity, fantasy, 'truth,' and howling sadness."

David Shields, author of Reality Hunger

About
BIO

Don Waters is the author of the memoir These Boys and Their Fathers, a novel, Sunland, and two short story collections, The Saints of Rattlesnake Mountain and Desert Gothic, which won the Iowa Short Fiction Award. His fiction has been widely published and anthologized in the Pushcart PrizeBest of the West, and New Stories from the Southwest.

A frequent contributor to the San Francisco Chronicle, he’s written for the New York Times Book ReviewOutsideThe BelieverTin House, and Slate, among other publications. Waters is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and teaches at Lewis & Clark College.

He lives in Portland, Oregon with his partner, the writer Robin Romm, and their daughters.

Books

The Saints of Rattlesnake Mountain

Sunland

Desert Gothic

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