Dear Katy, Love Dad: The Story of a Father’s Love from Afar

Dear Katy, Love Dad is sweeping family saga, rich with emotional weight. It is a story about personal discovery and uncondtional love. When Will Reed inherits the old hat box, he finds letters that his grandfather wrote to his daughter, Will s mom. The letters are beautifully written and give Dear Katy, Love Dad its heart and tone, and a mood that resonates long after you put the book down. Will s grandfather was estranged from his three year old daughter in the 1920s, but, through his letters, this wanderlust mining engineer casts his influence to a daughter from across a continent and often from across an ocean. As Will begins to examine his grandfather s letters, he merely figures to unearth his heritage, to learn more about his grandfather, and to garner a few family stories to share with his own ten-year-old daughter. But what he discovers is enough to change his life forever. Dear Katy, Love Dad protrays the quintessential American family of the twentieth century and examines difficult areas of the human experience. What radiates from this novel is a touching, timeless and heartwarming story about a father’s love from afar.