Advance Praise for Tea with Dad
It’s been said, and as a father of a daughter I know it’s true, "A daughter is her father’s heart, walking away on feet.” Nancie Laird Young, three-score-and-change, needed to walk back into her father’s house. Six years later, she’s given him, and us, this lovely book.
—Jesse Kornbluth, writer and editor, HeadButler.com
A profoundly moving story about midife reckonings and inter-generational caretaking, family connections, and what it means to come home.
—Heather Diamond, author, Rabbit in the Moon
Sit back and steep yourself in Young’s reflective recounting of family stories and secrets, misconceptions and discoveries, in what ultimately proves to be the grace-infused accommodation between an aging parent and adult child, between their past and their present.
—Jim Tomlinson, author of Things Kept, Things Left Behind (Iowa Short Fiction Award)
No one gets a do-over in life, but the next best thing is to look at our experiences and make sense of them in the service of truth and growth. In Tea with Dad, Nancie Laird Young takes an unflinching look at herself, her family, and her place in the world in a memoir that is authentic yet compassionate… Tea with Dad is a personal story that addresses a universal longing. It is a homecoming to oneself.
—LouAnn Clark, author and podcaster, A Decided Difference
