FSB

Now that we have finished Liar's club, it is now our responsibility to embark on reading Fathers, Sons, and Brothers. Unlike Mary Karr's Liar's Club, Brett Lott's novel is an easy flowing book that involves several page breaks along with large text per page. So far the book is off to an interesting start, filling us in on the type of family that the main character has had throughout his lifetime. Surprisingly, the author starts the book out with talking about his appreciation for garages, but does eventually tie the resemblance of the garage in with his family. The garage is the place to spend time playing fort with your brothers and let your imagination go wild. "My dad would hose out the entire garage, giving the concrete floor a slick sheen, a temptation too great for us"(4). This is Lott describing one of the games the boys would play in the garage, where they would slide in and out of the garage until the wet concrete would dry up.

Being that this class is based on family, this is an important book to read revealing what it's like to grow up with three brothers all close in age and a family that moves frequently do to the Fathers career. Though my family doesn't personally relate to Brett Lott's, I do know of several of my friends that are mirror images of the Lott family. However, like the Lott family, my family does have quiet the collection of home videos and I can relate to watching videos of my early years just like Lott mentions in his description. "There is a home movie of two of us sitting on the edge of the swimming pool at our grandma and grandpa's old apartment building in Culver City."(25). After reading this description, I instantly think back to the summer of 1998 when my brother and i were racing in our hotel pool while my parents and grandparents took turns video taping the outcome of each race.