I don’t think I’ve ever read a better account of how we experience the otherness of our parents, the unreachability of their secret hearts, their acts of faith. Wood’s book is brilliantly funny, original and stylish, and could easily be the most important book about fatherhood published this century
Andrew O’Hagan, author of Caledonian Road
About James Wood
Born in Durham in 1965, James Wood has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2007. He was the chief literary critic at the Guardian from 1992 to 1995, and a senior editor at The New Republic from 1995 to 2007. His books include How Fiction Works, which has been translated into fifteen languages.
