THE
COUNCIL OF DADS (On-Sale: TODAY! April 27, 2010; Price: $22.99 US/$29.50 Can.) is
the book Bruce Feiler never expected to write. For years, he has
captivated
readers with his smart, witty, insightful storytelling chronicling his
heart-stopping adventures around the world in such bestsellers as Walking
the
Bible, Abraham, and America’s Prophet.
But
in 2008, Feiler, the father of two young girls, learned he had a
life-threatening tumor in his left femur. Confronting the possibility
that he may not be around to help his daughters grow up, he reached out
to six
men from all passages in his life and asked them to be present through
the
passages in his daughters’ lives. And he called this group of men
“The Council of Dads.”
“I
believe my daughters will have plenty of opportunities,” he wrote to
these men. “They’ll have loving families. They’ll
have welcoming homes. They’ll have each other. But they may
not have me. They may not have their dad. Will you help be their
dad?”
THE
COUNCIL OF DADS is the uplifting story of what happened
next. Feiler introduces us to the extraordinary, far-flung men in his
Council and captures the life lesson he wants each of them to convey to
his
daughters—how to see, how to travel, how to question, how to dream.
He profiles himself as a father, his own father, and his two
extraordinary (and
quite different) grandfathers—one from the rural South, the other from
the urban North.
And
he captures in beautiful, wrenching prose the harrowing journey of his
“Lost Year” fighting cancer and trying to salvage his leg. An
aggressive regimen of chemotherapy leaves him nauseated and exhausted,
his mind
foggy. In a 15-hour sci-fi surgery, doctors remove several bones from
his
leg and reconstruct it in a procedure only one person has ever
survived.
With unflinching candor, Feiler details not only the physical effects of
the
disease and treatment, but also the toll it took on his family. He
writes
that at one of his lowest points he snapped at his wife and children,
then
broke down in tears. “I was a wreck,” he writes. “Our home
had become a gruesome parade of psychological disfigurement.” But along
the way, the wisdom and strength he gathers from his Council, coupled
with the
beauty and humor he discovers in his own family, transforms his “Lost
Year” into a “Jubilee Year” of reconnection and
renewal. The result is an extraordinary tribute to friendship, and a
sage
collection of advice for how to cultivate our dreams.
THE
COUNCIL OF DADS is a deeply hopeful book, a story of
enduring love between a husband and wife and between a father and his
daughters. But most of all it’s a celebration of friendship and a
testament to the profound power of human connections.
For more information,
please visit: www.brucefeiler.com
or www.thecouncilofdads.com
Our review of this book will be coming soon.
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How sad, and how uplifting as it says. Sounds like a book that just should be read
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