Come Home, Love Dad

At eighteen, Shelly Reuben left the safe haven of her home in Illinois to go to New York & become a great writer. That she had to go was the imperative of youth. That she survived was in no small measure, due to her father. For Samuel Reuben, raising children was an act as creative & eccentric as inventing burglar alarms, wrecking havoc in the kitchen "if flour footrpints aren't on the floors & carpets (it) doesn't taste as good", devising rotating signs that sell tuexdos & importing Yerbamata teas. The author takes us by the hand & introduces us to magical mirrors, brothers wearing Davy Crockett T-shirts, stalwart lions who guard the entrance to the Art Institute & octogenarian uncles who collect giant balls of string & disappear at the drop of a hat. This is Sam's story...a story about a man, the unprofitable buildings he owned that were an inextricable part of his soul, his benevolent iconoclasms & his adoring "Little Chickadees:. In contrast to all-too-common tales of abuse & neglect, Come Home. Love, Dad gives us a delicious childhood. The silver platter on which these memories are served is the life-admiring personality of Sam...& the enchanting letters that he wrote to his daughter. Wonderful epistles imparting proverbs reciting poetry, conveying wit, wisdom, whimsy...& always...always lettng her know that he loved her & wanted her to "Come Home. Love, Dad".Reuben, Shelly is the author of 'Come Home, Love Dad', published 2000 under ISBN 9780966286816 and ISBN 0966286812.