Craig McNamara

I am thankful to Mr. McNamara for writing this book and giving us an intimate look into his private feelings and family life, sharing with us his anguish at the relationship between himself and his father, an instrumental player in the Vietnam war tragedy. This shows the reader an angle we could otherwise never have been privy to.

The book mesmerized me from the beginning; completely drawing me in. The conversational style seemingly broke down barriers that otherwise would have prevented the reader from getting such an intimate glimpse into his personal and family life.

I had the added element of having been born and raised in, and currently residing in Yolo County, California, a very small, rural, close-knit county in Northern California; as well as having been born and raised on a nut farm. Mr. McNamara, has been a resident of our county, and a nut farmer for many years now. The local aspect of much of it, from right here in our little, rural Yolo County provided a unique personal connection to me, that I rarely, or probably never get in a book of international importance.… (más)