McSweeney’s Books: An Excerpt from Daddy Boy by Emerson Whitney
McSweeney’s Books: An Excerpt from Daddy Boy by Emerson Whitney - - -
Daddy Boy follows Emerson as he packs into a van full of strangers and drives up and down the country—staying in Days Inns, eating bags of carrots from Walmart, and wanting nothing more than to surrender to the force of a colossal storm. “We had no idea where we were going,” Emerson writes, “just waiting for one cloud to pop.” Roaming the ...