Home Game
An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood
18 May 2009
Territory Rights — Worldwide including Canada, but excluding the British Commonwealth.
Description
A book that explores the difference between the idea of fatherhood and a man’s actual experience of it.
Lewis decided to keep a written record of what actually happened immediately after the birth of each of his three children. This book is that record. But it is also something else: maybe the funniest, most unsparing account of ordinary daily household life ever recorded from the point of view of the man inside. The remarkable thing about this story isn’t that Lewis is so unusual. It’s that he is so typical. The only wonder is that his wife has allowed him to publish it.
Reviews
"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
"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
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