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Pops : Learning to Be a Son and a Father by Craig Melvin; Overdrive Inc is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Pops : Learning to Be a Son and a Father about?

A deeply personal exploration of fatherhood, addiction, and resiliency from Craig Melvin, news anchor of NBC's Today show. For Craig Melvin this book is more an investigation than a memoir. It's an opportunity to better understand his father; to interrogate his family's legacy of addiction and despair but also transformation and redemption; and to explore the challenges facing all dads#8212;including Craig himself, a father of two young children. Growing up in Columbia, South Carolina, Craig had a fraught relationship with his father. Lawrence Melvin was a distant, often absent parent due to his drinking as well as his job working the graveyard shift at a postal facility. Watching sports and tinkering on Lawrence's beloved (but unreliable) 1973 Pontiac LeMans were two ways father and son connected, but as Lawrence's drinking spiraled out of control, their bond was stretched to the breaking point. Fortunately, Craig had a loving, fiercely protective mother who held the family together. He also had a series of surrogate father figures in his life#8212;uncles, teachers, workplace mentors#8212;who by their examples helped him figure out the kind of person and father he wanted to be. Po

Who reads Pops : Learning to Be a Son and a Father?

Author

Craig Melvin; Overdrive Inc

Publisher

William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9780063072015

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Memoir, Fiction

Rating

4.8 / 5 (549 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14