num_pages: 184
description: My Father's Keeper is the moving story of Jonathan Silin, a gay man in midlife who learned to care for his elderly parents as a series of life-threatening illnesses forced them to make the difficult transition from being independent to being reliant on their son. Their new needs and unrelenting demands brought parents and child into intimate daily contact and radically transformed what had been a distant and emotionally fraught relationship.My Father's Keeper chronicles the ways in which the ideas and skills Silin acquired as an early childhood educator, a specialist in life span development, and a compassionate witness to the devastation of the HIV/AIDS crisis came together with his interest in human psychology to deeply inform his thinking about the dramatic changes in his family's life and increasingly influence his role as his father's (and mother's) keeper.
language: English
title: My Father's Keeper: The Story of a Gay Son and His Aging Parents
titlecomplete: My Father's Keeper: The Story of a Gay Son and His Aging Parents
genres: LGBT, Education
ratings_count: 20
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Gay Memoir/Biography
publisher: Beacon Press