Tales from the Fatherland

Two Dads, One Adoption and the Meaning of Parenthood

Tales from the Fatherland
Ben Fergusson
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Hardback
h246 x 162mm - 256pg
7 Jul 2022 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9781408714294
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A pause. ' Ah, Herr Fergusson. It' s Frau Schwenk. ' Our social worker, I now understood. ' Thank you for getting back to me. I' m calling because we have a little boy, four weeks old, who needs a family. ' In 2018, after the introduction of marriage equality in Germany, Ben Fergusson and his German husband Tom became one of the first same-sex married couples to adopt in the country. In Tales from the Fatherland Fergusson reflects on his long journey to fatherhood and the social changes that enabled it. He uses his outsider status as both a gay father and a parent adopting in a foreign country to explore the history and sociology of fatherhood and motherhood around the world, queer parenting and adoption and, ultimately, the meaning of family and love. Tales from the Fatherland makes an impassioned case for the value of diversity in family life, arguing that diverse families are good for all families and that misogyny lies at the heart of many of the struggles of straight and queer families alike.
Ben Fergusson' s debut novel, The Spring of Kasper Meier, was awarded the Betty Trask Prize and the HWA Debut Crown, and was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. The Other Hoffmann Sister and An Honest Man complete a trilogy of novels set in the same apartment block in Berlin at key moments in the city' s twentieth-century history. Ben lives in Berlin with his husband and son and teaches at the University of Potsdam.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781408714294
Published: 7 Jul 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Little, Brown
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Format: Hardback
Height: 246mm
Width: 162mm
Spine: 30mm
Weight: 440g
Pages: 256

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