Seize

By Brian Komei Dempster

Seize, Brian Komei Dempster's follow-up to Topaz, spares no one the highs and lows of fatherhood. The speaker struggles to care for his young and ailing child -- a child whose many medical problems create an obstacle course of moral and emotional dilemmas. How does a father come to terms with the large and unknowable mysteries of a child who cannot communicate in a "normative" way? How does a parent -- especially one who is dependent on language -- guide a child without the use of speech? And how does one become the parent of another when their own uncertainties, their own wounds -- intergenerationally from war, from strained race relations, from constantly being denied a place to belong -- are still healing?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1945588519
• ISBN13: 9781945588518
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Four Way Books
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"