The Father You Get: And the Ones You Make, Believe In, and Become

by Patton Dodd

In a world of imperfect-at-best and bad-at-worst dads, what is the ideal of fatherhood we aspire to? Why does this ideal exist?

What is it about fathers and father figures that looms so large in the lives of so many? So wonders Patton Dodd in this work of reflection and memoir, in which he wrestles with a dad-sized hole, the gap between the idealized father he yearned to have and the father he got--an often-absent alcoholic who struggled...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1506486983
• ISBN13: 9781506486987
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Broadleaf Books
• Length: 240 Pages