Home, Away

Heart-wrenching father-son story that looks at an ugly divorce from the father's perspective.Opposite of the typical deadbeat dad story where the father disappears on page 3. This book deals with the conflict between a man's ambition and his desire to be a good parent.Gillenkirk is an advocate of co-parenting and will be talking on the topic in various venues in the US.The book is rich in baseball details. Gillenkirk did his research in the San Francisco Giants dugout and clubhouse. A good chunk of the book is set in Mexico, and many of the Hispanic ballplayers are fully realized figures who are vital to the novel.Fictional version of a post-divorce book. «It was awful, but here's how I got through it.»May appeal to growing number of stay-at-home dads who put their careers aside to let their better-paid spouses be the breadwinners.