My Father's Heart: A Son's Journey - Hardcover

Steve McKee

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33 ratings by Goodreads

9780738210971: My Father's Heart: A Son's Journey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0738210978 ISBN 13: 9780738210971

Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong, 2008

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Sixteen-year-old Steve McKee watched his father die of a heart attack on the couch in their TV room. A lifelong smoker and workaholic, John McKee had been floored by a heart attack five years earlier. The McKee clan-perhaps including a demoralized John himself-had long been waiting for the other shoe to drop. At age fifty-two, Steve McKee learned that he was his father's son more than he had ever hoped-he, too, has serious cardiovascular disease. Haunted by his father's seeming surrender to the condition, McKee set out to find the man who died before the son could know him. In so doing, what might he, Steve McKee, learn of himself? Chronicling the disorienting first days following John McKee's death, My Father's Heart is an extraordinary story of an all-too-ordinary scenario: A father dies, a son remains, and the loss casts a long shadow across a generation. Rich in evocative detail of time, place, and family, it is a powerful memoir of love, forgiveness, and finding oneself.

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Chronicling the disorienting first days following the author's father's death, this work tells the story of an all-too-ordinary scenario: a father dies, a son remains and the loss casts a long shadow across a generation. It is a memoir of love, forgiveness and finding oneself.

Review:

Metapsychology Online "It is a source of encouragement for others who have heart problems and it is a reader for those who know what it is to lose their dad when they are so young. It is also a testimony to the agony children, even adult children must live with in order to justify, accept and forgive their parents addictions." Tucson Citizen, 2/26/09 "In this remarkable account, a son explores who his father really was and in the process finds himself. This is personal reporting that is both crisp and honest." Psychiatric Services, August 2010"Readers who enjoy this book might consider recommending it topatients who have cardiovascular disease or who have loved oneswho do." MediZine's Healthy Living, Fall 2010"a lovely book"

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