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"This book examines the power of food as a communicative tool to bring people of diverse backgrounds together. The author argues that food enables people to look past their differences and focus on their similarities, thus creating a stronger sense of community via the sharing of a meal"--

Cover -- Endorsement Page -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Content Warning -- Dedications -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Biographies of the authors -- Introduction -- What is estrangement? -- Lisa talks about estrangement and guilt/shame -- David talks about estrangement and guilt/shame -- Unraveling the ties that bind -- Using stories (narrative, autoethnography) to research family estrangement -- Finding our voices, telling our stories, implicating others -- David writes -- Lisa writes -- Together we write to rupture -- Introduction to the chapters -- Section 1: Estrangement due to lingering effects of childhood neglect, abuse, or abandonment -- Section 2: Estrangement due to family secrets, betrayal, or death -- Section 3: Estrangement resulting from the search for identity, belonging, or home -- Section 4: Estrangement beyond our control, on being estranged from -- References -- Section 1: Estrangement due to lingering effects of childhood neglect, abuse, or abandonment -- Chapter 1: Writing of, off, to, and from my mother: Moving Forward, Word by Word -- The way we once were -- Entangled -- Running from home -- Leaving us again -- Return visits -- Feeling safe -- Unsafe childhood -- If the world was ending -- What is love? -- Are we still connected when we are kept at arm's length? -- Epilogue-an untidy end -- References -- Chapter 2: Estrangement: A Father/Son Love Story -- Non-Fictional Stories -- Divorce Equals Estrangement? -- A Silent Narrative -- Sharing a Publication -- Two People, Two Views -- Non-Happy Endings -- Tough Decisions -- Epilogue: COVID-19 -- References -- Chapter 3: A Series of @!?#@!? Events: A Journey to Mother-Daughter Estrangement -- A Collage of Narrative Exploration -- The Family -- Tremors -- Riding an Aftershock -- Too Many Tremors -- The Tremor of 2004.

This paper explores masculinity in light of the relationship three men had with their fathers. Three stories are offered as individual poetic inquiries, initiating discussion among the authors. By understanding the relationship with our fathers through collaborative writing, we are comprehending our own embedded masculinity in society and at the same time, we are finding new understandings of what it means to be a man. We reflect on the idea of fathering as something we need to think about in the process of connecting with our emotional needs.