Frank Conroy’s hilarious memoir Stop Time portrays an insane father, grifting stepfather, and ambivalent mother. Conroy raises himself, but beneath his funny-man exterior, the scars run deep. For the story of another bad dad who leaves scars, read The Great Stork Derby, based on an actual contest in which a husband pressures his wife to have babies for cash and, fifty years later, learns the true meaning of fatherhood. Learn more about the book in NOVELS.
