title: Cry Father: A Book Club Recommendation!
author:  Benjamin Whitmer 
description: "Cry Father is strong medicine. It burns going down, but there's healing in that dose as well. It's a book that put me in the mind of my own Dad and made me think of my own duties as a father. And any book that can reach inside your heart and mind and force you to reflect on such things is doing something very, very right indeed." (Craig Davidson, author of Rust and Bone and Cataract City)<br /><br />"Whitmer's bleak tale of dysfunctional father-son relationships contains some shockingly violent scenes, captures the seedy milieus of rundown mountain towns, and tallies the enormous cost of loving and losing." (<i>Booklist</i>)<br /><br />Whitmer writes about the rustbelt of life. Showing the seedy, the dark, and the things that others are afraid to show. (Frank Bill, author of Crimes in Southern Indiana)<br /><br />Since the death of Larry Brown there have been at least a dozen novelists touted as the heir to Browns gritty throne. Needless to say, there have been few whove actually lived up to the promise. However, Benjamin Whitmers stark debut [<i>Pike</i>] easily rivals Browns most renowned novels. (<i>Spinetingler Magazine</i>)<br /><br />"Benjamin Whitmers latest, <i>Cry Father</i>, is a gut punch of raw storytelling power. A novel of fathers and sons, and the constantand at times emotionally cripplingmistakes both make. Much like Whitmers first novel, it is absolutely uncompromising and one of 2014's must read novels." (<i>Lit Reactor</i>)<br /><br />"Whitmers deft descriptions of biker bars, greasy spoons and mean streets are as spot-on as his clear, clean appreciation of the high country where the 'peaks...look like earth torn out of the sky.'" (<i>Kirkus Reviews</i>)<br /><br />Searing, spare, beautiful prose and characters who arrive on the page already well-worn. A pebble tossed into this novel reveals concentric waves of violence, guilt, culpability, shame, and vengeance  and yet when the surface settles, astonishingly, there is hope. (Sophie Littlefield, author of Garden of Stones and The Missing Place)<br /><br />Benjamin Whitmer writes with fearless and savage veracity, beautiful and brutal in equal measure. (Christa Faust, Author of Money Shot)<br /><br />In prose both beautiful and raw...Whitmer presents an Americana too long off the mainstream literary grid. Brilliant. (Charlie Stella, Author of Shakedown)
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  _The Dead Fathers Club_
  
  
  Matt Haig is the number one bestselling author of _Reasons to Stay Alive_ and
  seven other highly acclaimed books for adults, including _How to Stop Time_ ,
  a _Sunday Times_ bestseller, and _The Humans_. As a writer for children and
  young adults he has won the Blue Peter Book Award, the Smarties Book Prize and
  been shortlisted three times for the Carnegie Medal. His work has been
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  Also By Matt Haig
  
  
  _The Last Family in England_
  
  
  _The Dead Fathers Club_
  
  
  _The Possession of Mr Cave_
  
  
  _The Radleys_
  
  
  _The Humans_
  
  
  _Humans: An A–Z_
  
  
  _Reasons to Stay Alive_
  
  
  _How to Stop Time_
  
  
  For Children
  
  
  _The Runaway Troll_
  
  
  _Shadow Forest_
  
  
  _To Be A Cat_
  
  
  _Echo Boy_
  
  
  _A Boy Called Christmas_
  
  
  _The Girl Who Saved Christmas_
  
  
  _Father Christmas and Me_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Published in Great Britain in 2018 by 