Unfortunately, My Father Is History
History remembers the speeches, theories, wars, discoveries and scandals. Children remember breakfast.
A teacher asks a class to write about their fathers and one important thing they have learned from them. Unfortunately, their fathers include emperors, philosophers, scientists, presidents, artists and men whose names have become larger than ordinary life.
From Roman domestic politics to Socratic permission slips, Nietzschean heartbreak and a president known by everyone except his own child, each story asks the same inconvenient question: what is it like to be raised by someone who belongs to history before he belongs to you?
Dark, absurd and unexpectedly tender, Unfortunately, My Father Is History is a satirical collection about fame, ideology, parenthood, and the privilege of having a father nobody else has heard of.
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