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Fathers and Sons

University of South Florida, Tampa

This article is written as a personal letter to the author of A Need to Know. The letter responds to the freshness of the narrative writing in the book, its risks and rewards, and questions whether this is a book about "knowing" or about "feeling." Shame, pain, loneliness, and rage are feelings often felt but not expressed in relationships between fathers and sons, and like many narratives, A Need to Know aspires to truth but can make no claim to it. Narrative is not merely an inheritance; it's also a way of continuing a relationship marked by the silence of death through linking the past to the future, giving one's life a sense of continuity and integrity.

Key Words: narrative • family relationships • qualitative writing

Qualitative Inquiry, Vol. 14, No. 7, 1321-1328 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/1077800408322682


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