This is a thoughtful, emotionally mature, peaceful journey of discovery and reconciliation. Leslie Sussan only knew her father as a frustrated, angry, difficult father, but when she searches for his story and then creates the reconciliation he started before his death, it changed her entire idea of him as a man. 

One of the strengths of this book is the way Sussan weaves in her own concerns about turning this into a book and her notes about process.