DAD’S MAYBE BOOK
Tim O’Brien
4th Estate
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This eBook first published in Great Britain by 4th Estate in 2019
Copyright © Tim O’Brien 2019
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Source ISBN: 9780008372453
Ebook Edition © October 2019 ISBN: 9780008372477
Version: 2019-09-27
For Tad, Timmy, and Meredith O’Brien
An entry from our babysitter’s journal, January 8, 2008: “You have never lived till you see a two-year-old fall in the toilet.”
And there goes Tad, running through a heavy rain on Rue Malar in Paris, clutching a child’s umbrella, carefully splashing down in each available puddle. After a time, he lifts the umbrella over Meredith’s head and says, “You are my sunshine, even when it’s raining.”
Contents
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
1. A Letter to My Son
26. Timmy and Tad and Papa and I (I)
27. The Language of Little Boys
29. Turkey Capital of the World