By Brian Komei Dempster.

This is the author’s follow-up toTopaz, which spares no one the highs and lows of fatherhood. The speaker struggles to care for his young and ailing childa child whose many medical problems create an obstacle course of moral and emotional dilemmas. How does a father come to terms with the large and unknowable mysteries of a child who cannot communicate in a normative way? How does a parentespecially one who is dependent on languageguide a child without the use of speech? And how does one become the parent of another when their own uncertainties, their own woundsintergenerationally from war, from strained race relations, from constantly being denied a place to belongare still healing?