İnsanları çaresiz bırak, iç organlarından roket yaparlar!

Siz bu cümleyi okurken, bir yerlerde insanlar, ülkelerindeki savaş, açlık ve yoksulluktan kaçmak için sonu zifiri bir yolculuğa çıkmaya hazırlanıyor. Ancak bu hikâye o kaçak göçmenlerle değil, onları kaçıranlardan biriyle ilgili. Adı Gazâ. Babası bir insan kaçakçısı, Gazâ da onun çırağı. Henüz 9 yaşında. Yani, hayata ve insana dair, öğrenmemesi gereken ne varsa, hepsini öğrenecek yaşta.

“Doğu ile Batı arasındaki fark, Türkiye’dir. Hangisinden hangisini çıkarınca geriye Türkiye kalır, bilmiyorum ama aralarındaki mesafe Türkiye kadar, ondan eminim. Ve biz orada yaşıyorduk. Her gün politikacıların televizyonlara çıkıp jeopolitik öneminden söz ettiği bir ülkede. Önceleri çözemezdim ne anlama geldiğini. Meğer jeopolitik önem, içi kapkaranlık ve farları fal taşı gibi otobüslerin, sırf yol üstünde diye, gecenin ortasında mola verdiği kırık dökük bir binanın ada ve parsel numaralarıyla yapılan çıkar hesapları demekmiş.

1.565 km uzunluğunda koca bir Boğaz Köprüsü anlamına geliyormuş. Ülkede yaşayanların boğazlarının içinden geçen dev bir köprü. Çıplak ayağı Doğu’da, ayakkabılı olanı Batı’da ve üzerinden yasadışı ne varsa geçip giden, yaşlı bir köprü. Kursağımızdan geçiyordu hepsi. Özellikle de, kaçak denilen insanlar… Elimizden geleni yapıyorduk... Boğazımıza takılmasınlar diye. Yutkunup gönderiyorduk hepsini. Nereye gideceklerse oraya… Sınırdan sınıra ticaret… Duvardan duvara…

Stories for Boys: A Memoir is a poignant exploration of fathers and sons, where Gregory Martin grapples with the revelation that the father he knew has survived a suicide attempt and had been leading a secret life. Martin's father, a man married for thirty-nine years, had been conducting anonymous affairs with men, and now must start anew as a gay man.

Amidst the national conversation about gender, sexuality, and acceptance, this memoir delves into the transformation of a father-son relationship. After years of suppression and denial, the truth is finally given air and light. Martin's narrative is both quirky and compelling, enriched with personal photos and a mix of social science and literary insights.

Through humor and candidness, Martin examines the impact of his father's secrets on his own life as a husband and father. Stories for Boys resonates with conflicting emotions and the complexities of family sympathy, posing questions such as: How well do we know the people we think we know best? And how much do we need to know to keep loving them?

When Tomas and his son, Peter, settle in Chust as woodcutters, Tomas digs a channel of fast-flowing waters around their hut, so they have their own little island kingdom. Peter doesn't understand why his father has done this, nor why his father carries a long, battered box, whose mysterious contents he is forbidden to know.

Tomas is a man with a past: a past that is tracking him with deadly intent, and when the dead of Chust begin to rise from their graves, both father and son must face a soulless enemy and a terrifying destiny.

Set in the forbidding and remote landscapes of the 17th century, this is a story of a father and his son, of loss, redemption, and resolution.

From the age of three, Norman Ollestad was thrust into the world of surfing and competitive downhill skiing by his intense, charismatic father. While his friends were riding bikes and playing ball, young Norman was whisked away in pursuit of wild and demanding adventures. These exhilarating tests of skill prepared "Boy Wonder," as his father called him, to become a fearless champion—and ultimately saved his life.

In February 1979, a chartered Cessna carrying Norman, his father, his father's girlfriend, and the pilot crashed into the San Gabriel Mountains and was suspended at 8,200 feet, engulfed in a blizzard. Norman's father was dead, and the devastated eleven-year-old had to descend the treacherous, icy mountain alone. Norman defied the elements and put his father's passionate lessons to work, becoming the sole survivor of the crash.

Set amid the spontaneous, uninhibited surf culture of Malibu and Mexico in the late 1970s, this riveting memoir recalls Ollestad's childhood and the magnetic man whose determination and love infuriated and inspired him—and also taught him to overcome the indomitable. Crazy for the Storm illuminates the complicated bond between an extraordinary father and his son, offering remarkable insight for us all.

What had happened to my beautiful boy? To our family? What did I do wrong? Those are the wrenching questions that haunted David Sheff’s journey through his son Nic’s addiction to drugs and tentative steps toward recovery.

Before Nic became addicted to crystal meth, he was a charming boy, joyous and funny, a varsity athlete and honor student adored by his two younger siblings. After meth, he was a trembling wraith who lied, stole, and lived on the streets.

David Sheff traces the first warning signs: the denial, the three a.m. phone calls—is it Nic? the police? the hospital? His preoccupation with Nic became an addiction in itself. But as a journalist, he instinctively researched every treatment that might save his son. And he refused to give up on Nic.

Nick Flynn met his father when he was working as a caseworker in a homeless shelter in Boston. As a teenager, he'd received letters from this stranger father, a self-proclaimed poet and con man doing time in federal prison for bank robbery.

Another Bullshit Night in Suck City tells the story of the trajectory that led Nick and his father onto the streets, into that shelter, and finally to each other. With a raw authenticity, telling honesty, and a dark but necessary humor, Nick Flynn's memoir breathes new life and vigor into the form.

In passionate and playful prose, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City illuminates the emotional and physical consequences of a relationship between father and son that exists, if at all, in a void.

Big Fish is the story of Edward Bloom, a man who, in his prime, was nothing short of extraordinary. He could outrun anybody, never missed a day of school, saved lives, and tamed giants. Animals loved him. People loved him. Women loved him (and he loved them back). He knew more jokes than any man alive.

Now, as he lies dying, Edward Bloom continues to share his jokes and tall tales, stories that have made him larger-than-life in the eyes of his son, William. This narrative unfolds through a series of legends and myths, inspired by the few facts William knows about his father. Through these tales—hilarious and wrenching, tender and outrageous—William begins to understand his elusive father's great feats and his great failings.

Big Fish is a tale of mythical proportions, offering a heartfelt journey through the life stories of an extraordinary man. It is a blend of humor and mythical adventures, making it a truly unique read.

Seize the Day deftly interweaves humor and pathos, capturing the climactic events of a single, transformative day. The story unfolds with Tommy Wilhelm, a man in his mid-forties, who finds himself temporarily residing in the Hotel Gloriana on the Upper West Side of New York City. Here, amidst the elderly retirees, he stands out as a figure of isolation.

This novella traverses a pivotal day in Tommy's life — his "day of reckoning." He grapples with his past mistakes and spiritual malaise, confronting his separation from his wife and children, strained relationship with his vain and successful father, and the failures of his acting career. A mysterious philosophizing con man offers him a moment of truth and understanding, shining a light on one last hope.

Independence Day is a visionary account of American life and the long-awaited sequel to one of the most celebrated novels of the past decade. This novel reveals a man and our country with unflinching comedy and the specter of hope and permanence. Richard Ford evokes these themes with keen intelligence, perfect emotional pitch, and a voice invested with absolute authority.

Frank Bascombe is no longer a sportswriter, yet he's still living in Haddam, New Jersey, selling real estate. He's still divorced, though his ex-wife has remarried and moved to Connecticut with their children. Frank is happy enough in his work and is pursuing various civic and entrepreneurial sidelines. He has high hopes for this Fourth of July weekend: a search for a house for clients relocating to Vermont, a rendezvous on the Jersey shore with his girlfriend, and a trip to Connecticut to pick up his troubled teenage son for a tour of sports halls of fame.

Frank's Independence Day turns out not as planned, and this decent, bewildered, and profoundly observant man is wrenched out of his private refuge. Independence Day captures the mystery of life in all its conflicted glory with grand humor, intense compassion, and transfixing power.

Nobody's Fool by Richard Russo is a slyly funny and moving novel that follows the unexpected operation of grace in a deadbeat town in upstate New York—and in the life of one of its unluckiest citizens, Sully, who has been doing the wrong thing triumphantly for fifty years.

Divorced from his own wife and carrying on halfheartedly with another man's, saddled with a bum knee and friends who make enemies redundant, Sully now has one new problem to cope with: a long-estranged son who is in imminent danger of following in his father's footsteps.

With its sly and uproarious humor and a heart that embraces humanity's follies as well as its triumphs, Nobody's Fool is storytelling at its most generous.

When Dad becomes the lone caregiver for a dependent adult son, Dad has to answer the terrifying question: What happens if I die first? A retired CIA operative comes to believe he wasted his professional life not only promoting questionable American policies, but missing life with his family.

Suddenly, his wife is gone, and he must learn all that she knew about caring for their mentally retarded son. After a life of planning for contingencies, the former spy must deal with the possibility that he may die before his son. Who will care for the son when the dad spent a life out of the country and now has no one to lean on?