A Lion in the Snow : Essays on a Father's Journey Home

When his wife was pregnant, James M. Chesbro started having daydreams of seeing a lion in his street, padding toward his house through the snowflakes of a New England storm. He felt more like a son, still grieving over the early loss of his own father, rather than a prepared expectant-dad. In these essays, Chesbro finds himself disoriented and bewildered by fatherhood again and again as he explores the maddening moments that provide occasions for new understandings about our children and us. A Lion in the Snow is a contemporary father?s field guide, a husband?s compendium, and a wife?s glimpse into the turning mind of a spouse in the grounded prose of domestic conflict.