The purposefulness of fatherhood helps both these losses, though it instills in him the universal fear that we will not be able to protect our children from the cold, hard world, even as we are somehow, for the most part anyway, making it on our own. In the patches of memoir he intersperses with lyrical essay on literature, Orner is excruciatingly present with his feelings – accounting for the difficult relationship he had with his father, forever unresolvable now that he is dead, and the irreclaimable marriage to M, who, despite doing much better now, refuses to let him use her full name. In his intriguing new book Am I Alone Here? Peter Orner plays with the difference between reading and writing as therapeutic human behaviors. Am I Here Alone? Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live (New York, NY: Catapult, 2016)
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