Two books by Daniel Walker, one family
The Accountable Life is for fathers. Nobody's Watching is a novel for sons, and for any father who wants to know what's going on behind his kid's face. Same family, fifteen years apart. The Better Father, the eight-week program, is built from both.
The Accountable Life
Ray is fifty-three. He built a mechanical contracting company from one truck and a refusal to be outlasted, and there's an offer on the table to buy it. He came for a tiebreaker. What he finds is a son's message he never actually read, a shop floor forty years old, and the question he's never once let himself ask.
"You don't need to be fixed. You need to see something you've been standing too close to." From The Accountable Life
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Nobody's Watching
Chet is fifteen, the funniest kid at the table, and he can't feel summer coming. He's sent to his grandfather Ray for the summer: an old man who wore the same face for forty years and isn't grading it. A truck that doesn't run. A porch at three in the morning. And the question on the cover.
"Somebody is watching. The whole time. The one behind your eyes."
Get Nobody's WatchingOne family, fifteen years apart
At the end of The Accountable Life, Ray's grandson is on the way. He is the fifteen-year-old in Nobody's Watching. Read them side by side: a father reads one, his kid reads the other, and neither has to talk about it. Sometimes the best conversation of the summer starts with "I read the part about the porch."
Then practice it
The books are the reading. The Better Father is the practice: eight weeks, about ten minutes a day, one small thing to try at home each evening, built from both books. $149 once. Not a subscription. Take the free quiz for dads and read day five first. See the eight weeks.