Bibliograph

Our Fathers, Rebecca Wait

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Our Fathers, Rebecca Wait

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Our Fathers

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Rebecca Wait

Summary

Nobody knows why John Baird, a quiet family man, took it into his head one day to pick up a shotgun and murder his wife and children. On the Scottish island of Litta, violent crime is unheard of, and the killings send shockwaves through this tiny community in which the Bairds were well-known and liked. Tommy, the only survivor of the terrible crime, has come back to Litta many years later. Faced with this reminder of the horrors that took place amongst them, the community must ask themselves again if anyone can truly know their neighbors. What drives a man to murder his own family? And, to what extent is Tommy his father's son? With unflinching candor and powerful prose, Our Fathers interrogates the damaging legacy of toxic masculinity, and reveals how family can both wound us and help us heal

Target audience

adult

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