Home Game
Subtitle: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood
By: Michael Lewis ; photographs by Tabitha Soren.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Norton
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780393069013
Subjects: Lewis, Michael; Fathers -- United States -- Biography; Fatherhood -- United States
Genres: Biography.
Description: Fatherhood for dummies—a perfectly frank and mercilessly funny account.

When he became a father, Michael Lewis found himself expected to feel things that he didn't feel, and to do things that he couldn't see the point of doing. At first this made him feel guilty, until he realized that all around him fathers were pretending to do one thing, to feel one way, when in fact they felt and did all sorts of things, then engaged in what amounted to an extended cover-up.

Lewis 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.