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Title: Father's Day
Subtitle: A Journey into the Mind and Heart of My Extraordinary Son
Author: Buzz Bissinger
Narrator: Buzz Bissinger
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-15-12
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 21 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians
Publisher's Summary:
A remarkable memoir from the best-selling author of Friday Night Lights and Three Nights in August.
Buzz Bissingers twins were born three minutesand a worldapart. Gerry, the older one, is a graduate student at Penn, preparing to become a teacher. His brother Zach has spent his life attending special schools. Hell never drive a car, or kiss a girl, or live by himself. He is a savant, challenged by serious intellectual deficits but also blessed with rare talents: an astonishing memory, a dazzling knack for navigation, and a reflexive honesty that can make him both socially awkward and surprisingly wise.
Buzz realized that while he had always been an attentive father, he didnt really understand what it was like to be Zach. So one summer night Buzz and Zach hit the road to revisit all the places they have lived together during Zachs twenty-four years. Zach revels in his memories, and Buzz hopes this journey into their shared past will bring them closer and reveal to him the mysterious workings of his sons mind and heart. The trip also becomes Buzz's personal journey, yielding revelations about his own parents, the price of ambition, and its effect on his twins.
As father and son journey from Philadelphia to Los Angeles, they see the best and worst of America and each other. Ultimately, Buzz gains a new and uplifting wisdom, realizing that Zachs worldview has a sturdy logic of its own: a logic that deserves the greatest respect. And with the help of Zachs twin, Gerry, Buzz learns an even more vital lesson about Zach: character transcends intellect. We come to see Zach as he truly is: patient, fearless, perceptive, kinda man of excellent character.
Members Reviews:
Don't Expect Fuzzy and Warm
Well, heated, maybe...
This is definitely very well written, and it's certainly honest and candid. Bissinger is unflinching in his honesty to the point where it struck me that he was being self-serving, rather "Woe is me, look at what a low life I am," kind of guy he is.
The whole premise of the book, a spur of the moment jaunt across the country is like everything in the book, a blip of an idea that comes to Bissinger that he crams down everyone's throat, then he has buyer's remorse, then he tries to backtrack, then he tries to talk his way out of it, then he blows up on everyone, then he goes through with it.
This is the way of the whole book. The way of Buzz's life.
And I don't know how anyone can stand living with him.
Zach is extraordinary, yes, because how he can manage not turning into a lump of jelly as Bissinger flies off the handle time and time again, spewing profanity about how stupid and messed up things get on the trip, and how this that and the other that happened is a major f-up, just shows he has a strength of character and of courage that is beyond your average individual.
The trip is almost entirely self-serving for Bissinger, seeded with his expectations and peppered with promises made to Zach that he doesn't even try to keep. He has excuses for why he doesn't try, he's very candid and honest that it's just because he's pissy, in a bad mood, etc. Then there are the burning memories he has along the way that cause rage that turn into flat out explosions where, again, he's very candid and honest.
