Raising Girls in Bohemia: Meditations of an American Father: A Memoir in Essays

A provocative collection of personal and political essays by an American writer, Raising Girls in Bohemia chronicles the life of a father raising three perfectly bilingual, culturally bifurcated, Czech-American daughters. While tracing what fatherhood has taught him about the world, Katrovas delves into a range of intricately related yet far-flung subjects including fine dining, sexual epithets, gender identity, racism, poetry, and education, tracing the contours of his ignorance about all things. Through the course of these fine essays, Katrovas unveils what it means to be an American and to be a man, and especially what it means to be a father of three daughters, born in Prague, in what we can only hope is the twilight of patriarchy.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Three Rooms Press
Published: 10/07/2014
ISBN: 9781941110065
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.80d

Review Citations: Shelf Awareness 10/17/2014