Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood
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The New York Times bestseller: “Hilarious. No mushy tribute to the joys of fatherhood, Lewis’ book addresses the good, the bad, and the merely baffling about having kids.”—Boston Globe When Michael Lewis became a father, he decided to keep a written record of what actually happened immediately after the birth of each of his three children. This book is that record. But it is also something else: maybe the funniest, most unsparing account of ordinary daily household life ever recorded, from the point of view of the man inside. The remarkable thing about this story isn’t that Lewis is so unusual. It’s that he is so typical. The only wonder is that his wife has allowed him to publish it.
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Short review: I have been wanting to read something by Michael Lewis so I picked this up when I saw it on the Kindle Unlimited list. I mostly enjoyed it. I think we need more men to talk about their experiences with the changing role of fathers. And we need honesty about how that works. At times I still felt Lewis used the idiot Dad voice. Some of that was probably real ignorance and attempts to be honest about that. But others times it felt like he was just falling into the stereotype that was easy to fall into. The last chapter especially, about getting a vasectomy was a clear, ‘Men are idiots' chapter. Yes some of that is funny, but still as a stay at home Dad, I am looking for more than Dads are idiots. I do not want to go back to ‘Father Knows Best' or Superdads. But there has to be some middle ground where men can be less than perfect and less than an idiot.
There was a lot good here as well. So I don't want to give the impression it is worthless.
My full review is on my blog at http://bookwi.se/home-game/