Raising girls in Bohemia : meditations of an American father : a memoir in essays
Publication Information
New York : Three Rooms Press, 2014.
Physical Description
vii, 235 p. ; 21 cm.
Summary
"A provocative collection of personal and political essays by an American writer, Raising Girls in Bohemia chronicles the life of a father raising three perfectly bilingual, culturally bifurcated, Czech-American daughters. While tracing what fatherhood has taught him about the world, Katrovas delves into a range of intricately related yet far-flung subjects including fine dining, sexual epithets, gender identity, racism, poetry, and education, tracing the contours of his ignorance about all things. Through the course of these fine essays, Katrovas unveils what it means to be an American and to be a man, and especially what it means to be a father of three daughters, born in Prague, in what we can only hope is the twilight of patriarchy." --Amazon.
Contents
- I am learning Czech
- Prison art and civic pride
- The underprivileged
- My transvestite
- Private gold
- A brief history of fine dining
- School in nature
- Katie's hair
- Solidarity
- Not America
- Going native
- Adjacent room
- The big easy and the big nasty
- The lear years
- Stalin's face
- Poetry is a dead art
- Alan Levy 101: a eulogy
- Czech, Italian, Mexican cuisine
- The animals we must become
- A brief history of my heart
- Scorpio rising
- The magic book
- Glenn Beck is not my brother.