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Book SynopsisA book that explores the difference between the idea of fatherhood and a man’s actual experience of it.
Trade Review"Unabashedly frank, hilarious and sweetly sentimental....a somewhat daring and in many ways groundbreaking book about what it’s like to be a father in modern America....intensely honest." -- Amy Scribner - BookPage
"It’s an engaging journal that selectively details how Dad grew up as well....Brief, clever and frank—a good gift for Father’s Day." -- Kirkus Reviews
"He captures serious issues with a warmth that shows he's a pretty good dad after all." -- Kyle Smith - People Magazine
"His reflections capture both the unease and the excitement that fatherhood brings." -- Publishers Weekly
"Lewis is an insouciant raconteur who can spin out even standard dad stories (about, say, sending a kid to school dressed outlandishly) without making them sound stale." -- Ann Hulbert - Slate
"Lewis's style is funny, frank, and engaging, and he gets a lot of comic mileage telling tales at his own expense....it's refreshing to hear a dad describe so vividly the uglier aspects of the job." -- Christopher Noxon - The Los Angeles Times
"Lewis writes memorable, insightful, yet simple and brisk sentences as easily as the rest of us breathe." -- Marc Tracy - The New York Times Book Review
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Home Game, which was adapted from a series of
Slate essays and is an accordingly zippy read, is hilarious but painfully candid, one man’s uneasy reckoning with the potentially devastating consequences of parenting. It’s unsparing, but Lewis is as honest with himself as he’s been with his subjects. Grade: A-." -- The Onion AV Club
