After Visiting Friends: A Son's Story (Audiobook)

from Randall.Hansen

A nice book for father's day. A story about a man's quest to learn more about his father... a father who died at a young age when the author was just a boy. The book is funny, poignant, and made me cry a few times -- thinking about my own father, my own family. A few too many side trips slow down...

from LonelyReader

I enjoyed this book about a son's journey to learn about his father's death. It was encouraging to see how open his father's friends and family were to sharing stories about his father, even those who were not willing to talk about his death. Since Hainey was so young when his father passed away ...

from RDHawk6886

I very much enjoyed this book, part memoir and part thriller. It is the story of a man trying to figure out the riddle of his father's death, while discovering who his father was, and putting his own life, mortality, mother and family into context. His mother is great. There is some things she sa...

from etxgardener

Michael Hainey is an editor with GQ magazine and the son of the copy editor of the Chicago Sun Times. His father died when he was 6 and he always wondered exactly how his father died since no one in his family would ever talk about it. His father's obituaries said that he died "after visiting fri...

from nyiper

When you consider just how many people there are in this world, growing up with one parent missing for any number of reasons, Michael Hainey's memoir is heartbreaking but fascinating to see how much of his life was spent being absorbed and really overwhelmed with all of the questions he had about...