Can be nonfiction or fiction, preferably from a male perspective but it’s not the end of the world if not. I’ve been looking for a story like this but it’s kind of hard to pin down with a google search (where I just get self-help books) or on reddit (where a lot of the results are about books to recommend to boys who are fatherless). Ideally, the book would deal with all of the issues of abandonment and growing up fatherless, and the search to reunite with the father if even just for answers. Any suggestion is appreciated!
by TheDWhitehouse
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There’s a whole bunch in the Odyssey that isn’t what you’re looking for, but there are large parts towards the end that deal with Odysseus coming home to his son Telemachus who was effectively abandoned by his father.
These themes are also dealt with heavily in the modern novel Circe, although you get them from a third party feminine perspective (meaning that you see things from the main character, Circe’s point of view). The father-son interactions are very touching though, and even more issues of abandonment and growing up fatherless come into play with Telemachus’s half brother Telegonus, who also grew up without his father (also Odysseus).
John Irving frequently has this as a theme in his books.