Lit Praise and Study Q's for MONDAY

Pete Fortenbaugh’s novella, The Monday After Father’s Day: Revelations, A Parable — like Huckleberry Fiinn —deals with deceptively layered emotions and ideas. Which is why we have included a Study Guide in the novella. It illicit the kind of conversation we have been having around the nation and the globe about human relations, climate change, and tradition. The first question Study Question is below.

Study Guide for The Monday After Father’s Day: Revelations, A Parable

1.     The book deals with some very adult challenges – alcoholism, sex, racism – but the author chose to tell the story through the eyes of an 8-year-old boy. Why do you think he did that?

Pete Fortenbaugh’s Monday After Father’s Day delivers on its promise of revelation, a novella with the literary weight of a novel sung in the earthy tones of American vernacular.  In eight-year-old Charles Thomas we have a Tom Sawyer for the 21st Century, a boy in search of a father who has forsaken him, a quest that leads us on a pilgrimage through hard-earned truths conjuring a coming-of-age for us all.  Set in Johnsontown on the Chesapeake Bay and staged in the human heart, this beautifully wrought parable of a boy waking to the wonders and horrors of the world allows us a readiness for love in a time of crisis.

Robert Mooney, author of Father of The Man, Executive Director Etruscan Press