Table of Contents
Foreword Margaret McMullan 9
Introduction Phillip Lopate 17
Absences
No Regrets Jane Smiley 23
Christmas From Now On Patricia Henley 33
My Father's Daughter Bliss Broyard 37
Secrets of the Sun Mako Yoshikawa 51
Sol's Exodus Nancy Jainchill 67
Lost & Found
My Dad Jill McCorkle 79
My Father's Bible Joyce Maynard 87
Masters in This Hall Melora Wolff 97
Crossing State Lines Jessica Woodruff 117
The Memory I Chose Jane Friedman 129
Waiting for My Father Barbara Shoup 137
The American Father Maxine Hong Kingston 147
Presences
Life Saver Ann Hood 167
Reading My Father Alexandra Styron 173
Gifts Nancy McCabe 191
Oxygen Susan Neville 207
What He Worked For Susan Perabo 219
Do You See What I See? Antonya Nelson 225
Daddy's Dime Store Lee Smith 229
Balloons Johanna Gohmann 235
A Relationship of Words Lily Lopate 243
Burning the Trees Jayne Anne Phillips 255
My Fathers Bobbie Ann Mason 263
Working for a Living Alice Munro 267
Contributors & Acknowledgments 295