Beautiful Daughter-Dutiful Son

About the Book

When Toronto Star reporter Hanoch Bordan was a single father he wrote a series of guest columns for the Star inspired by living with his teenage children. He wrote the stories (they were all "fiction," he insists) in order to, as he puts it, "help preserve my sanity." Readers loved the columns and laughed their heads off. Some even said they cut out the columns and started scrapbooks, other said they put them on their refrigerators with magnets.

Now, years later and happily retired he says he still keeps getting asked about the columns. So he has assembled all these columns and added other of his writings in the same vein that have not been previously published. The result is Beautiful Daughter - Dutiful Son, which is sure to delight you.

Hilarious, Priceless, Refreshing, Say Readers

"Thank you for brightening my day." E. G., Bracebridge, Ont.

"Absolutely priceless." B. T., Willowdale, Ont.

"Congratulations. . .most enjoyable and meaningful." S. S., Toronto

"It's been a long time since anything made me laugh out loud on the subway . . . I thought I was the only one with kids like yours and a house that looked like yours." D. P., Scarborough, Ont.

"A damn good giggle . . . You must be a great Dad!" H. B., Rosedale, Ont.

"Beautifully refreshing and humorous." S. P. , Toronto

"The column on the a-t-e words is a masterpiece. . . Keep up the good work!" T. A., Orillia, Ont.

"You really hit home . . . thanks." B. R., Toronto

About the Author

Hanoch Bordan was born and educated in Montreal at Baron Byng High School and McGill University, where he discovered journalism at the McGill Daily, moved to New York where he became an editor with the Herald Tribune, spent a year in England writing, and when he came back to New York resumed journalism and then joined a publishing company.

He went back to journalism when, at the request of the Toronto Star, he moved to Toronto, first as a copy editor, then onto rewrite and reporting. It was while at the Star that he wrote the series of guest columns on being a single father that form the bulk of this book.

Since his retirement from the Star, and now remarried, he has continued to live happily in Toronto with his wife, where they live in a house that has a garden with a waterfall, but no guest bedrooms, the children now safely out of the house.