Oliver Munday: Head of Household

From stories about a father who shows up hung over to chaperone his daughter’s kindergarten bowling trip, to another who rediscovers his love of graffiti, and a father who pays for his legal fees and apartment through his OnlyFans earnings, Head of Household (Simon & Schuster) is a short story collection that reckons with divorce, financial anxiety, and sexuality to create a collage of the beleaguered father, a man on the front lines of a masculinity in crisis — stories of men salvaging the shreds of their identities while staging puppet shows and pretending to be ponies for their children.