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Quicklet on Michael Lewis' Home Game: An Accidental Guide To Fatherhood

Karen Lac

Publisher: Hyperink

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Summary

ABOUT THE BOOK 
 
Parenthood is an experience often talked about but rarely understood by those who have not gone through it. It is an experience that can hardly be described in words. Author Michael Lewis, in Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood, never claims that he has written a definitive account of fatherhood. Contrary to the title, the book is not even really a guide to what one should expect and do when becoming a father. 
 
Rather, it is Lewis personal account of his experience of becoming a father to and raising three children. Reading much like a diary, he takes the reader on the journey that he and his wife, Tabitha Soren, went through. Through Lewis personal account, the reader gets a glimpse of what fatherhood is like. Or, more accurately, what fatherhood was like for one man. 
 
MEET THE AUTHOR 
 
Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Karen Lac has been writing since 1999. Her articles have appeared in print in The Occidental Weekly. Her writing reflects her broad interests. She writes travel, entertainment, political commentary, health, nutrition, food, education, career, and legal articles for numerous websites. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and a Bachelor of Arts in politics, both from Occidental College. 
 
EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK 
 
When Lewis became a father, the only role model he had was his own father. His own father, like many men of that time whose primary responsibility was to provide economic security, wasnt really involved in raising him. The bulk of the dirty work was done by his mom. Now, fathers are expected to be involved. Lewis knows that some people thinks that he should do more to help his wife out with the kids, while there are others who think hes a saint for how much he does. 
 
Lewis makes it clear in his book that as of yet, there is no ideal model of fatherhood. If there was, then fatherhood, and parenting in general, wouldnt be so difficult and surprising. Today, fatherhood as practiced by Lewis father and that of most other fathers would be frowned upon and considered to be neglect. 
 
CHAPTER OUTLINE
 
Quicklet on Michael Lewis' Home Game: An Accidental Guide To Fatherhood
 
+ About Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood
 
+ Michael Lewis: The Father Who Wrote an Accidental Guide to Fatherhood
 
+ Overall Summary of Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood by Michael Lewis
 
+ Chapter-by-Chapter Commentary & Summary of Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood by Michael Lewis
 
+ ...and much more
 
Michael Lewis' Home Game: An Accidental Guide To Fatherhood
Available since: 04/04/2012.

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