tammys_take 's review for:

Don't Cry for Me by Daniel Black

4.0

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I keep wavering between a 3 to 4 stars on this one. The story was compelling, a dying father writing a letter of the regrets in his life to his gay adult son. What I liked was the discussion of the differences of what defined manhood between the father’s and son’s generations, the way the story was written as a letter, and how the history of generational trauma is explored. I didn’t like that it didn’t truly feel like an “apology” for how he treated his son. It was hard to read from the father’s perspective at times, he was unflinchingly a product of his generation. The one saving grace was the beginning of his transformation through education, albeit, a bit too late.