My Father's Heart: A Son's Journey - Hardcover

McKee, Steve

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9780738210971: My Father's Heart: A Son's Journey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0738210978 ISBN 13: 9780738210971

Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books, 2008

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Sixteen-year-old Steve McKee watched his father die of a heart attack on the couch in their TV room. A lifelong smoker and workaholic, John McKee had been floored by a heart attack five years earlier. The McKee clan-perhaps including a demoralized John himself-had long been waiting for the other shoe to drop. At age fifty-two, Steve McKee learned that he was his father's son more than he had ever hoped-he, too, has serious cardiovascular disease. Haunted by his father's seeming surrender to the condition, McKee set out to find the man who died before the son could know him. In so doing, what might he, Steve McKee, learn of himself? Chronicling the disorienting first days following John McKee's death, My Father's Heart is an extraordinary story of an all-too-ordinary scenario: A father dies, a son remains, and the loss casts a long shadow across a generation. Rich in evocative detail of time, place, and family, it is a powerful memoir of love, forgiveness, and finding oneself.

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"Steve McKee takes us back in time beautifully in My Father's Heart. This is a skilled, loving narrative that'll make you smile and weep and remember what everything felt like when you were in high school."--Dan Shaughnessy, author of Senior Year: A Father, A Son, and High School Baseball

About the Author:

A former sports editor, Steven McKee is now a global copy desk editor at the Wall Street Journal. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and son.

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