Excavating the Past: Road Trips to Self Discovery

Broken families, fraught fatherhood, and second chances — authors Andrew Porter and Annie Hartnett write about rediscovering oneself and rebuilding life amidst profound loss. In The Imagined Life, Porter explores father-son bonds through a man who sets out on a drive across the Californian coast after separating from his wife and son, determined to unravel the mystery of the father who disappeared in his childhood. In The Road to Tender Hearts, Hartnett takes the reader on a cross-country road trip alongside a daughter, two orphans, a cat, and their sixty-three-year-old father trying to find love and take a second pass at parenting.