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The Most Important Thing: Stories About Sons, Fathers, and Grandfathers

215 pp. | Candlewick | April, 2016 | Trade ISBN 978-0-7636-8111-1 $16.99
(2) 4-6 Seven short stories offer glimpses into the lives of middle-school boys navigating complicated relationships with fathers and grandfathers. Divorces, abandonment, estrangement, and death figure into the plots, and the protagonists must learn to find their places in reconfigured families. Resolutions are never pat; the stories show the consequences of a father's absence and the varied ways boys find to compensate for the loss.
Reviewer: Dean Schneider | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 2016

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