The dad in Akhil Sharma’s An Obedient Father rapes his 12-year-old daughter and decades later, when she comes to live with him because she’s broke, thinks about raping her daughter. He feels bad about his badness but too bad for this family rapist. For the story of another bad dad, 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 value of fatherhood. Read more about the book in NOVELS.
