Father Loss And More

Fathers can be lost in many ways— in drastic ways, like death, divorce or abandonment or in as less extreme situations, like unavailability or unpredictability.

To a large extent, our identity is defined by our father and we have to know him in order to know ourselves. In other words, an absent father leaves a gapping hole in our sense of self, inspiring authors to return to the theme of fatherlessness time and again.