A Lion in the Snow: Essays on a Father's Journey Home

by James M. Chesbro

Overview

When his wife was pregnant, James M. Chesbro started having daydreams of seeing a lion in his street, padding toward his house through the snowflakes of a New England storm. He felt more like a son, still grieving over the early loss of his own father, rather than a prepared expectant-dad. In these essays, Chesbro finds himself disoriented and bewildered by fatherhood again and again as he explores the maddening moments that provide occasions for new understandings about our children and us. In James M. Chesbro’s stirring debut, A Lion the Snow, we find a contemporary father’s field guide, a husband’s compendium, and a wife’s glimpse into the turning mind of a spouse in the grounded prose of domestic conflict.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781949116007
Publisher:	Woodhall Press
Publication date:	10/01/2018
Edition description:	First edition
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.41(d)

About the Author

James M. Chesbro’s work has appeared in The Washington Post, America, The Writer’s Chronicle, Brain, Child Magazine, Essay Daily, and The Huffington Post. His essays are notable selections in The Best American Essays series 2012, 2014, 2015, 2017, and 2018, as well as The Best American Sports Writing 2014. He teaches at Fairfield College Preparatory School.

Editorial Reviews

"James M. Chesbro writes with equal measure of heart and smarts, patiently braiding together threads of family, loss, memory, and fatherhood until we, the reader, become unraveled. His richly textured, sensory-driven prose reveals the hidden meaning and emotional stakes that shimmer beneath everyday activities as simple as mowing the lawn.”

—Steven Church, author of six books of nonfiction, most recently the collection of essays, I'm Just Getting to the Disturbing Part: on Work, Fear and Fatherhood, and One with the Tiger: Sublime and Violent Encounters Between Humans and Animals.

"James M. Chesbro makes the mundane memorable. His clear and resonant voice makes every word feel as if it was written just for you. Smart, witty, and relatable, I’m always waiting for that next word, anxious to read on the page what I’ve so often felt in my heart.”

—B.J. Hollars, author of Flock Together, From the Mouths of Dogs, This Is Only a Test, and Sightings

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