When Bruce Feiler is diagnosed with cancer, he wonders what his two young daughters would do if he wasn't around. That led to his idea of forming a "council of dads" to be his voice.
This book is not at all maudlin, as a book written by a guy at a time when he is pondering/fearing his own death might be. It's really a story about men -- men's friendships and fatherhood specifically.
Feiler tells the story of his "lost year" (the year he underwent treatment) with letters that he wrote to friends detailing how the family was handling each step of treatment, chapters introducing each of the men he invites to join the council and telling about how he met them, and flashbacks to early life with his wife and daughters.
It was well-written, interesting, and not overly self-indulgent. There aren't many books that look at a man's life in this way. I recommend it.Get more detail about The Council of Dads: My Daughters, My Illness, and the Men Who Could Be Me.
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