The Boy He Left Behind: A Man's Search for His Lost Father
by Mark Matousek

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Book Review: A special work that is very touching
Summary: 5 Stars

Though suffering and unsuccessfully running from his own demons, Mark never looks back on that incident until he sits with his pal Joe in a Manhattan restaurant thirty-two years later. Joe challenges Mark to search for his father. For no obvious reason, Mark feels it is time and turns to private investigator Mac Sullivan to find the man who left the boy behind when Kennedy was president.

THE BOY HE LEFT BEHIND: A MAN'S SEARCH FOR HIS FATHER is a modern day autobiographical (and somewhat biographical) Odyssey, with the quest being a lost father. Though Mark Matousek never completes his physical search, some closure occurs for him at the deathbed of his mother. The very talented Mr. Matousek (see SEX DEATH ENLIGHTENMENT) provides an inspiring, absorbing, and perceptive story that provides his audience with much insight into a one parent family. Mr. Matousek cleverly uses jocularity to offset the melancholy and maudlin moods that begin to overwhelm the audience. This book is a must reading for those who enjoy a true life dysfunctional relationship story centering on a fatherless family from an author who knows how to entertainingly and educationally spill his guts.

Harriet Klausner

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