Reflections on Coming of Age and Parenting

Patriarch Run can be seen as a story about fatherhood, about motherhood,about coming of age. In other words, it's about the stuff we deal with as human beings. I get a lot of question about those aspects of the story.

I am a sucker for a father story. I think a lot of us are. Maybe that's because we want to get it right with our own children. Or we want to get it right with our own parents. As a teacher, I am all too aware of how common it is for kids to have to father themselves.One of the mo...