MixedForwardPops is not really a book. It is a short introduction, a GQ article, a handful of Details columns, a bite-sized Atlantic piece, and a kind and moving essay about Chabon coming to terms with his elderly father that appeared earlier this year in The New Yorker ... Amusing, Tender, Mildly Self-Effacing Kvetch ... the same content that’s appeared in every parenting blog for the past 20 years...just written more elegantly and with more semicolons ... what’s missing from Pops is any sense of family dynamic ... His wisdom is very wise, and his prose quite beautiful. But I longed to see him make a mistake, for something to go terribly wrong.
