{"product_id":"dad-love-me-a-memoir","title":"Dad, Love, Me: A Memoir","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Quick gets personal, delivering a painfully wrought memoir that bravely explores parental abuse, the trap of alcoholism, lifesaving therapy, and the double-edged sword of literary success. I was moved by the depth of Quick's candor and his impulse to share his story to help other 'walking wounded' sons of toxic fathers discover a pathway to forgiveness.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e--Wally Lamb, #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe River Is Waiting\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\" \n\u003ci\u003eDad, Love, Me\u003c\/i\u003e is a gut punch of a memoir: a history of monstrous masculinity that will knock the wind right out of you. Matthew Quick explores the crushing legacy of having been loved badly--unsteadily at best, violently otherwise--and then turns his prodigious heart toward the painful, ecstatic project of forgiveness. What a gift he has. What a gift this book is.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e--Catherine Newman, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eSandwich\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWreck\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Almost every man I know is carrying a wound from his father, but most of us will die without ever admitting it. Matthew Quick didn't. I wish I could've read \n\u003ci\u003e Dad, Love, Me\u003c\/i\u003e while I was white-knuckling my own father-son mythology--this book will gut you and then, somehow, put you back together. We are taught, as men, that silence is strength and that need is weakness. So we drink. We work. We disappear into the pursuit of wealth and status and whatever else keeps us from feeling the thing we've never been given language for: that we are still, underneath all of it, sons who wanted to be seen by our fathers and weren't. \n\u003ci\u003e Dad, Love, Me\u003c\/i\u003e addresses this--precisely, courageously, and without self-pity. Read it. Then call your father. Time is not on your side.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e--Scott Galloway, #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eNotes on Being a Man\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMatthew Quick is the \n\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \n\u003ci\u003eThe Silver Linings Playbook\u003c\/i\u003e--which was made into an Oscar-winning film--and eight other novels, including \n\u003ci\u003eWe Are the Light\u003c\/i\u003e, a main selection of the Book of the Month Club. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages, received a PEN\/Hemingway Award Honorable Mention, was an \n\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize finalist, a \n\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e Editors' Choice, a #1 bestseller in Brazil, a Deutscher Jugendliteratur Preis 2016 (German Youth Literature Prize) nominee, and selected by Nancy Pearl as one of Summer's Best Books for NPR. \n\u003ci\u003eThe Hollywood Reporter\u003c\/i\u003e has named him one of Hollywood's 25 Most Powerful Authors. Matthew lives with his wife, the novelist Alicia Bessette, in Beaufort, South Carolina.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Quick grapples with a fraught relationship with his father, who now suffers from dementia . . . using a novelist's skill to home in on particular scenes and to explore their implications. . . . For all its heavy subject matter, the book has a remarkably light touch and sense of grace. . . . A poignant account of not-quite-finished business.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Kirkus Reviews\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"It's an oft-repeated truth of modern psychology: that to be healthy, you have to 'do the work.' But at a time when 'doing the work' has been trivialized by the online mental health click-machine, it is thrilling to see someone really, honestly doing the work, the very hard work, of compassion, forgiveness, and piercing introspection. Matthew Quick invites us on a profound journey--into childhood, fatherhood, masculinity, and the awareness required to heal after heartbreak. The courage it took to write this book leaves me in awe.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e--Nathan Hill, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Nix\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWellness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"A raw, heart-wrenching memoir, written in the second person as 'a long overdue letter to my father, ' Quick explains. . . . This absorbing book is his thoughtful, painful attempt to heal himself from the deep psychological wounds that have ached within him for decades.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--AARP Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"I will gobble up any memoir about having a shitty parent. . . . This memoir is Quick's first nonfiction work, and a vulnerable, beautiful one at that. The stories are written as retellings addressed to his father, giving us deep insight into the author's healing while also watching his dad change and open up as a result of dementia.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eScary Mommy, \u003c\/i\u003e Katie McPherson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eWritten in the form of a letter to his ailing father, this debut memoir from the bestselling author of\u003ci\u003e The Silver Linings Playbook\u003c\/i\u003e explores the complicated burden of caring for an abusive parent who is dying--here is Matthew Quick's most personal and potent work to date.\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\"This book will gut you and then, somehow, put you back together.\" --Scott Galloway - \"\u003ci\u003eDad, Love, Me\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterpiece....It will change people's lives.\" --Lori Gottlieb - \"A gut punch of a memoir...What a gift this book is.\" --Catherine Newman - \"For all its heavy subject matter, the book has a remarkably light touch and sense of grace.\" \u003ci\u003e--Kirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn the surface, Matthew Quick seemed to have it all--a loving wife, a thriving career as a novelist, and a beautiful home. He'd traveled all over the world advocating for mental health awareness, standing before crowds as a success story. But secretly, he was depressed and some days, he didn't want to live. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYears earlier, when he first told his father he wanted to be a novelist, the response was immediate and brutal: \"Idiot!\" That voice--angry and belittling--would echo through Quick's mind for years. He channeled his pain into his debut novel, \n\u003ci\u003eThe Silver Linings Playbook\u003c\/i\u003e, crafting a complex father-son dynamic drawn straight from his own life. The book became a \n\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller and was adapted into an Oscar-winning film starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence. Still, the approval Quick longed for never came. His father remained cold and withholding. The deeper the rift between them grew, the deeper Quick sank into anxiety and addiction. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this book, Quick takes readers deep into his psyche, as he wrestles with both his own mental health and his father's cognitive decline. A health scare finally forces Quick to get sober, but then, overcome by creative paralysis, writer's block threatens to end his career. The blank page is unbearable. As his desperation for healing peaks, Quick turns to a Jungian analyst he nicknames \"Zeus.\" In the safety of analysis, as Quick's repressed pain and shame surface, he finally cracks. Just as he is putting himself back together, his father is diagnosed with dementia. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSuddenly, the clock is ticking. If there is ever going to be reconciliation, it has to happen now. Quick and his wife pack up their lives in coastal North Carolina, drive eight hours, and move into a house just around the corner from Quick's parents, on an island right outside of Beaufort, South Carolina. There, as his father slips further and further away, Quick races to make a healing connection. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eDad, Love, Me\u003c\/i\u003e is Quick's raw, vulnerable, and deeply moving account of what it means to forgive a parent who never really knew how to love you. It's about wounds that never fully heal, and the power of showing up anyway. This beautifully brave and life-affirming memoir is a must read for anyone who has been starved of love but wants to keep loving anyway.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations:\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/span\u003e 06\/01\/2026 (EAN 9781668091753, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContributor Bio:\u003c\/strong\u003eQuick, Matthew\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMatthew Quick is the \n\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \n\u003ci\u003eThe Silver Linings Playbook\u003c\/i\u003e--which was made into an Oscar-winning film--and eight other novels, including \n\u003ci\u003eWe Are the Light\u003c\/i\u003e, a main selection of the Book of the Month Club. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages, received a PEN\/Hemingway Award Honorable Mention, was an \n\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize finalist, a \n\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e Editors' Choice, a #1 bestseller in Brazil, a Deutscher Jugendliteratur Preis 2016 (German Youth Literature Prize) nominee, and selected by Nancy Pearl as one of Summer's Best Books for NPR. \n\u003ci\u003eThe Hollywood Reporter\u003c\/i\u003e has named him one of Hollywood's 25 Most Powerful Authors. 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