The Tender Bar

The New York Times–bestselling memoir of a boy striving to become a man—now a major Amazon film directed by George Clooney and starring Ben Affleck.

Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, Esquire, The Los Angeles Times Book Review, Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, NPR's "Fresh Air," and New York Magazine

A Booksense PickA Borders New Voices FinalistWinner of the Books for a Better Life First Book Award

Raised by a single mother and desperate for a father figure, J. R. Moehringer ...