“They called themselves “The Three Doctors.” Their third book, The Bond: Three Young Men Learn to Forgive and Reconnect With Their Fathers (Riverhead, $24.95), arrives Thursday.
“They set out not only to describe their childhoods but also to include their fathers’ stories and the sons’ attempts to get past their lingering resentments. “Sometimes a son has to take it upon himself to bridge the gap when a father can’t,” is how Hunt puts it.
“Not that is was easy to write. Jenkins recalls that his initial enthusiasm for the project dredged up “bitter feelings I had buried about my dad, feelings that eat at you and can eat you up.” For a while, he stopped work on the book, waiting to see chapters from Davis and Hunt. And he had to persuade his father to open up to Bernstein about his failures. Jenkins says, “My attitude was, ‘At least he can do this for me.’ “
TheStateOf . . . The Three Doctors. Props to these young brothas for doin’ their thing. How many of you that have experienced an absent parent growing up could forgive them now??
