After Visiting Friends: A Son's Story

by Michael Hainey
Hennepin County Library audiobook 7 CDs
genre: non-fiction memoir
read by Dan John Miller

This was not as captivating as I expected it to be. His father died when he was only six years old. He grew up to be a reporter; his dad had been a "slot man" - a lead night editor at a Chicago paper. His dad's death impacted his childhood and his adulthood . . . in an almost obsessive way. I had some compassion for his struggles and his desire to find out what actually happened the night his dad died, but it all seemed overwrought and overblown. The father / son connection was important, and I can't relate to that. Plus, this wasn't my life story. It is definitely thoroughly researched but includes his introspection and wonderings along with the facts.