Daddy Issues

Winner of the Barbara DiBernard Prize in Fiction Daddy Issues is a collection of moving and complexyet simply and directly toldstories of queer Asian American experiences in Los Angeles. In many of these stories, the protagonists are artists and writers and other creative thinkers living on the fringe of survival, attempting to align a life of the imagination with the practical considerations of career, income, and family: a gay father who hasnt come out to his young son; a social worker, numbed by the destitute of his clients, who finds himself lost in self-destruction; a trans man who returns home to a father with dementia to help his family pack as they are pushed out by gentrification; a husband who can only stand aside as his wife heals from a miscarriage; and a broke writer who learns to love his stories again. The stories in Daddy Issues offer different contemplations on solitudethe good and the bad of it. Ultimately, this collection is full of hope, and how we can find the connections we need once we allow ourselves to become vulnerable.