What Remains of a Father

What Remains of a Father is a work of contemporary literary fiction about fatherhood, estrangement, and the machinery people build to survive losing someone they love.Since his marriage ended, the narrator has kept a record: every visit, every message, every small proof that he is still the father he believes himself to be. The record is meant to keep him honest. Instead, it becomes the version of events he trusts more than his own memory -- the account he reaches for when he needs to know who he is, and the ledger that quietly starts deciding what he is willing to see.The novel follows a father whose account of his own estrangement is entirely sincere and entirely his own. It asks a question it never answers directly: not whether he is telling the truth, but whether the truth he is telling still means what it did fifty pages ago.Written with the interior pressure of psychological fiction and the emotional stakes of a family drama, What Remains of a Father sits alongside recent literary fiction about fractured families -- offering book clubs and reading groups a story built for disagreement, one the novel does not resolve for them.