"Jason Allen has given us such an extraordinary gift with his memoir, Boys Without Fathers. Allen's memoir is an epic story and also an everyday one, which will be terribly familiar to everyone who has struggled or watched a loved one struggle with addiction. With exquisite specificity, wry humor, and enormous care for both his family members and his readers, Allen charts a journey to hell and the pathway home. The book you hold in your hand is by every metric an incredible story; it's also an antidote to despair, and an aquifer of hope."

 

—Karen Russell, Finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize

 

Jason Allen writes fiction, poetry, and memoir, and is the author of the novel The East End (Park Row Books/HarperCollins) and the poetry collection A Meditation on Fire (Southeast Missouri State University Press). He has an MFA from Pacific University and a PhD in literature and creative writing.