My dad wrote this National Book Award Finalist.  In it, he reaches back to his childhood and explores the lives of blue-class farmers and laborers in mid-century Kansas.  My grandfather ran his own machine shop and my father spent a lot of time there soaking up the culture and watching to see how these men found meaning in their lives.

There are a couple of poems in there about my sister and me, as well.  It's a little weird having all his fans read those, but it's pretty cool, too.