Fathers, Sons, and Brothers. revised

The first 32 pages of Fathers, Sons, and Brothers is a hard read. It's stop and start the whole way through, although the farther in you get the less you notice that stop and starting, it flows a little better. There's less of a jump from time period to time period, and you begin to get used to the jumping around. Or maybe the transitions are a little better. I don't like that the author tells short stories, of usually no more than a page or two, and then tells another. It's annoying. 

I like the short stories, by themselves at least. Reading only one at a time does not bother me. It's like reading Flash Fiction. Nothing more than simple flashes of detailed stories, thats fine, but I do not like that they are meant to be one story I guess. 

The stories are nice, and they do connect. For example, the story regarding his sons fighting, and the video of he and his brother in the pool. Also, the opening about the garage, and the story about he and his brothers in their garage, and their dad connect well. The problem is they jump from different times with no real sense of reason. It makes it harder to follow, it interrupts the flow of the stories. I assume there is a real for this jumping around, but I have yet to figure it out.

I do however like the way he divides the essays up into selections based on a major theme, and that the theme is the "chapter" title. I didn't pay a lot of attention to those at first, but I should have because they help you to see the connections between each essay.