Voice For The Silent Fathers: A Memoir Paperback – May 28, 2016

I love this book because it gave me real insight into loving and understanding your child as a individual. I always told my sons that they are special in their own special way I could never not love them because they're both different and that's what I love about them they have their special gift about them and that's what I cherish about them the most their "individuality." Children can be trying at times but that's ok it's how you stick by each other that matters the most. There's nothing more important than family and thank you Eddie and Drew for reminding me of that. PS you brought me back down to memory lane remembering different areas of Smithtown and going to Hauppauge High school. Good luck Eddie and Drew I hope you both find peace.

Exellent Book. The author took me on an emotional rollercoaster, total page turner got totally wraped up in the father-- son relationship had me rooting for them all the way till the end. Recommend this book to any one that has an issue with gays or lesbians, or going through a similar time dealing with personal acceptance. real raw expressive writing no sugar coat here!

Heart-wrenching at times, this is a brutally honest book. As a parent of two LGBT girls, I found it full of empathy, honesty and inspiration.

I loved Eddie K. Wright's sincere real life story of how he struggles with having a gay son. Eddie is very honest and holds nothing back on how he feels about Drew's homosexuality. Yet when reading the story you never doubt Wright's love for his son. This was an incredible read!

Brilliant book,couldn't put it down. A must read for everyone ,

It was a great read of true life events

Love conquers all.

The meat of the story of how a father cannot find his way to love his son for whom he is. Fighting to accept, support and honor the unconditional love a parent is to have for their child. The father himself is conflicted with his own way of life. He does not see his questionable life as “Gansta thug life” until he is once again sent to prison. This time will be his last time since it is for life. The prison way is revealing that he must love his son for who he is. This becomes an outlet for the author. His healing process of acceptance, support and that unconditional love a parent has for their child. Prison was the door that opened up his mind and heart for his son. I find the authors take on his battles about homosexuality in a relative way as about half as society does. The stigma that one puts with what a gay person must be. Well gay, straight or any other they are still a human being. Eddie needed to see his son as a human being and accept who he was as a person and the life he was leading before he can cope & understand his own son. I ended up having a love hate relationship with Eddie. At times reading his statements about yelling at his son for talking the way he was or playing with the Barbie dolls etc…I wanted to punch him in the face. Then I would have the complete opposite feeling when he did right by his son by taking him in for those two years. I had so much empathy and compassion for Drew. I hated every bit of what he was dealing with. The battles of growing up and not understanding completely why he was the way he was. He just was. He wanted to be free to be who he was. He was not allowed to be due to the fear of disappointing his father. Then being removed from his mother by his own mother because there was no room for him. Drew was dealing with more than any one child should have had to deal with. I related very well to the book. I am the mother of a son who is gay. I have known since he was 3 that he was gay. His father whom I am divorced from since he was 2 does not accept who he is. He believes I made him gay because I babied him. I understand and believe as this was pointed out in the book: God created us all and yes that book was written well over 2k years ago. God knew then and knows now what he was doing. One truth no matter what is that God says we must love all. I love God just as much as I love my son. Now that he is finally an adult himself by law I still worry for him. People are ignorant. I hope that Drew finds his way and fights his battle to win it. He is a hero… He just does not know this yet. Thanks to Eddie his father he made Drew a hero. ~C. Weber-Livingston