In this memoir, Tannen embarks on the poignant, yet perilous, quest to piece together the puzzle of her father’s life. But when he hands Tannen journals he kept in his youth, and she discovers letters he saved from a woman he might have married instead of her mother, she is forced to rethink her assumptions about her father’s life and her parents’ marriage.

As she grew up and he grew older, she spent countless hours recording conversations with her father for the account of his life she had promised him she’d write. Though he was often absent during her childhood, she was profoundly influenced by his gift for writing and storytelling. “An accomplished, clear-eyed, and affecting memoir about a man who is at once ordinary and extraordinary.”-Forward Long before she was the acclaimed author of a groundbreaking book about women and men, praised by Oliver Sacks for having “a novelist’s ear for the way people speak,” Deborah Tannen was a girl who adored her father.

Be encouraged that no matter what your story is, the gospel promises not just forgiveness but also a place in God’s family, experienced in a local church, where you can enjoy the fullness of his fatherly joy, care, wisdom, provision, protection, and security.A #1 New York Times bestselling author traces her father’s life from turn-of-the-century Warsaw to New York City in an intimate memoir about family, memory, and the stories we tell. Our conversation with Blair will help girls and women with father wounds shift their eyes from what they do not have in their earthly fathers (who, whether present or absent, loving or the opposite, can never be perfect) to what they do have in their eternal Father, who will never disappoint, reject, or abandon them. She shares how the gospel reshaped her identity and transformed her life. Her personal story of growing up without a father at home reflects the experiences of millions. In the episode, she shares her story of experiencing the pain of fatherlessness and offers an invitation to be loved by a Father who will never abandon us. In this powerful video, author, speaker, actress, spoken word artist, and WM blog contributor Blair Linne shares her story of growing up without her father at home.īlair is also our podcast guest this week.

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