The Dark Side of White Bread

By Elmo Shade

The relationship between Father and Son is one of, if not, the most influential in any family hierarchy. For a young boy, it can be the difference between love and fear, between success and failure, and between respect and resentment. the dark side of white bread: surviving our fathers is one man's chronological journey of his paternal

• Language: English
• Publisher: Atmosphere Press
• Release date: Jan 15, 2023
• ISBN: 9781639887774

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the dark side of white bread

surviving our fathers

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For my mother

Lucy Doris Lafever

1927-1984

He is like a stocking stuffed with things.

—The Father

Sharon Olds

Contents

Some Things in the Pocket of Someone I Loved

The Childhood Years

What Might Have Been

Not What You Wanted but What You Got

The Prodigal Son

Grandfathers

House Arrest

The Teenage Years

This One Thing

Oscillation

You Could Have Stopped It, but You Didn’t

The Deer Hunter

The Adult Years

Father’s Day 1974

I Would Run Everybody Out

The Box

The Hospice Years

Unbuckled No Longer

No Refund

The Letter

The Afterlife

When a Hurricane Released the Caged Roosters of Kauai

instructions from his thanksgiving recipe

Rapid Eye Movement

The Dark Side of White Bread

Some Things in the Pocket of Someone I Loved

One of the first