Granta 104: Fathers Alan Barker painted in his own garden

painted in his own garden at Giverny

he explains why change can be difficult and identifies the crucial forces that combine to make transformation permanent

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Publisher: Trapeze

Granta 104: Fathers Alan Barker painted in his own gardenFour years after "Mothers", "Granta 104" sets its sights on fathers. Look out for Hisham Matar on his father, who was kidnapped while living in Egypt and imprisoned by Muammar al Gaddafi in Libya; Helen Epstein on 'fatherhood' within the prisons of San Francisco; a dictator who has styled himself as the Father of the Nation; Rawi Hage on Beirut, as seen through his father's eyes; becoming a father again in middle age; and, Junot Diaz on Latin American