Accidents Will Happen: Essays & Photos

"When you're a carpenter's son, there are things you don't tell your mother..."

In this debut essay collection, Ryan Rickrode reflects on what it means to be a son and to become a father in a world full of chainsaws, ladders, and lead paint. Both a memoir and a meditation on risk, work, and family, Accidents Will Happen charts a journey from the bee stings of childhood to the roofing work of Rickrode's early adult years and beyond, to the swirly gray ultrasound images of a child not yet bor...