Only Sons is a warm and funny new book about personal and public spaces, fatherhood and suburbia, nostalgia and stagnation and hope. With the compression and wit, Moffett examines the comforts and disillusionments of present life while reckoning with the past. In the process, he tells a moving story of family and loss, and the way memory magnifies and minimizes feelings of grief as life continues on. At the heart of Only Sons is the narrator's relationship...