Playing Catch with Strangers: A Family Guy (Reluctantly) Comes of Age

New York City essayist Bob Brody only recently reached a milestone long overdue -- he's shown signs of finally resembling a full-fledged adult. In vignettes by turns heartbreaking, harrowing and hilarious, he chronicles his upbringing with deaf parents, getting stabbed in the chest five weeks after moving into his first apartment, and almost blowing his first date with his future wife thanks to a drunken remark. Here, too, Brody recounts his 10-year estrangement from his mother, confesses t...