The Ten Months: Present, Absent, Sometimes

What does a boy become when the man he needs is there... and not there? What does a father become when regret comes too late?

The Ten Months is a true father-to-son memoir told through childhood memories, neighborhood friendships, heartbreak, and survival in Cleveland, Ohio. It follows a young boy who learned early that presence is power — and absence leaves a mark — but also that even broken fathers can return.

From a great-grandmother’s dinner table to city park footsteps, from school hallw...