Product Details
Simon & Schuster, June 2003
Mass Market Paperback, 336 pages
ISBN-10: 0743482441
ISBN-13: 9780743482448
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Chapter 1
"Mr. Harris, I'm sorry, but you have cancer." Although devastated to learn he has just one year to live, fifty-five-year-old Julius Harris has always known that the day would come when he would pay for walking out on his wife and three children twenty years earlier. Now, with a sudden and passionate determination to make his family whole again, Julius begins trying to find a way back to his sons Caleb, the youngest, who's struggling to support his own son; Marcus, in the middle, who just can't commit himself to the woman he loves; and Austin, the eldest, who, like his father, is abandoning his wife and kids.
Inspired by RM Johnson's own fragile family history, The Harris Men is a poignant exploration of absentee fatherhood that gets to the very heart of what it means to be a man.