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Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood by Michael Lewis

2.0

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I've liked other work by Michael Lewis. As a new Dad, I thought I'd like this, but didn't. I expected something thoughtful but instead found a lot of self-deprecation, humblebrags, and awkward pride in being an uninvolved father. The few attempts at being sentimental were overwhelmed by the quest to turn everything his kids and wife do into a joke. The highlight of reading this, for me, was discovering that Lewis's wife (Tabitha Soren) has become a wonderfully talented photographer since her days as an MTV journalist. Unfortunately, I had to find this out on my own, by Googling. Lewis wrote her as an ever-suffering mother and idiot's wife, and not much else.