Letter to My Father

Having wounded his father with a hurtful letter when he was twenty-three, Tom Couser felt somewhat responsible for his later mental collapse. When his father died, Tom found personal documents that revealed facets of his fathers life of which Tom had known nothing. Too traumatized to grieve properly, much less to probe his fathers complicated history, Tom boxed the documents and stored themfor over thirty years. When he finally explored his fathers rich legacy, he achieved a belated reconciliation with a man he had not really known.