THE FATHER YOU GET Colorado Launch Party

Name: THE FATHER YOU GET Colorado Launch Party
Start: 2025-10-22T18:00:00-06:00
End: 2025-10-22T20:00:00-06:00
Location: Kinship Landing

Schedule

Wed Oct 22 2025 at 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Kinship Landing | Colorado Springs, CO

Come celebrate Patton Dodd's new memoir at Kinship Landing. Enjoy an author reading and Q&A. Books available for purchase and signing.
About this Event
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What is it about fathers and father figures that looms so large in the lives of so many? So wonders Patton Dodd in The Father You Get: And the Ones You Make, Believe In, and Become, an intimate reflection and memoir in which he wrestles with a dad-sized hole, the gap between the father he yearned to have and the father he got—an absent while-present alcoholic whose unreliability caused chaos for everyone around him. This struggle with the father he was given led to a variety of substituted: fathers he created, from an imaginary "Papa Friend" to male mentors he turned into father figures. Then there's the father he believed in, a Heavenly Father, made present by the steadfast and stubborn faith of his earthly mother. And finally, there is the father Dodd became when he had his own children, an experience that led him to track down the source and mystery of the father he got.

Throughout, Dodd's story resonates for anyone who struggles with the fathers they got, the fathers they wish they had—and anyone struggling to become the parent they hope to be. A lyrical, emotional meditation on the failures and glories of dadhood, The Father You Get is an extended wrestling match with the mysteries of a distant parental figure and an attempt to bridge the gap between the fathers we get and the fathers our hearts yearn for.

See more at pattondodd.com!
Agenda

🕑: 06:00 PM
Happy hour

Info: Food and drink available for purchase.

🕑: 06:30 PM
Author reading and Q&A with Tara Owens
Host: Tara Owens
🕑: 07:30 PM
Eat, drink, mingle, meet Patton, get your copy signed!