Playing Catch with My Mother: Coming to Manhood When All the Rules Have Changed

After the Sixties, after feminism, after political correctness, how does a boy become a man? In Playing Catch with My Mother, Greg Lichtenberg speaks for the silent sons of the gender revolution. It is an astonishing debut: exquisitely written, funny, sexy, wise, and painfully honest about the fate of good intentions.

The family experiment began with hope and energy. His mother returned to writing poetry and found her first job. His father quit corporate life to become a rock critic. …