Dance Real Slow
By Michael Grant Jaffe
Random House Audiobooks
$18, 3 hours
ISBN 0679451625
Review by Sukey Howard
The joys and frustrations of parenthood are magnified when you have to do it alone. Gordon Nash, single father of a charming four-year-old boy, knows this all too well. He's doing his best to make a real home for Calvin and be as unlike his own stern, unsmiling father as he can in Dance Real Slow, Michael Grant Jaffe's fine first novel. Jaffe details the relationship between Gordon and his son with such accuracy, intimacy, and love that it enmeshes you in their lives within minutes of listening. And when the ex-wife who walked out on Gordon and Calvin walks back in, now wanting her son, you'll feel Gordon's fear, rage, and anguish. Denis deBoisblanc reads this rare, moving look into fatherhood.
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