Description: Lucas Mann turns his attention, tenderness, self-reflection, and humor to contemporary fatherhood. Moving through memoir, lyric essay, literary analysis, and pop culture criticism, Attachments treats the subject of fatherhood with the depth, curiosity, and vivid emotion that it deserves.
Review Quotes: ". . . this essay collection could serve any new parent confronting the joy, exhaustion, and 'mundane, enormous terror of watching a child grow.' As a modern-day parent, you keep two things within arm's reach at all times: your child and your phone. Both are exquisitely engineered to demand your attention; both leave you unmoored from your sense of self. Until one day, as you fumble through small talk with other parents at the playground, you find yourself performing parenthood. Mann observes himself observing himself, articulating interiorities of fatherhood I hadn't noticed on my own. Probably because I was too exhausted--or scrolling on my phone."--Brent Baughman "NPR"