A Lion in the Snow

When his wife was pregnant, James M. Chesbro started having daydreams of seeing a lion in his street, padding toward his house through the snowflakes of a New England storm. He felt more like a son, still grieving over the early loss of his own father, rather than a prepared expectant-dad. In these essays, Chesbro finds himself disoriented and bewildered by fatherhood again and again as he explores the maddening moments that provide occasions for new understandings about our children and us. In James M. Chesbros stirring debut, A Lion the Snow, we find a contemporary fathers field guide, a husbands compendium, and a wifes glimpse into the turning mind of a spouse in the grounded prose of domestic conflict.