In Becoming Baba: Fatherhood, Faith, and Finding Meaning in America, Aymann Ismail shares his journey as the son of Egyptian immigrants, coming of age as a Muslim in the shadow of 9/11. As he builds a career in political journalism and starts his own family, Ismail reckons with religion, masculinity, and inheritance, asking what it means to be a Muslim man – and a father – in America. Julian Brave NoiseCat’s We Survived the Night interweaves oral history, hard-hitting journalism, and a deeply personal father-son journey into a searing portrait of Indigenous survival, love, and resurgence. Growing up without a present father, NoiseCat immersed himself in Native history and culture to understand the man he seldom saw. Here, he presents a rewriting and a restoration – of Native history and, more intimately, of family and self. In his first work of nonfiction, The Broken King: A Memoir, Michael Thomas explores fathers and sons, lovers and the beloved, trauma and recovery, success and failure. It unfolds through six interlocking and overlaying parts, focusing on the lives of five men: his father, a philosopher and absent parent; his estranged older brother; his two sons growing up in Brooklyn, New York; and himself.
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