Father's Day

Trying to think of some example in fiction of a really good father. I realized there aren't a lot of kids or parents in most of the books I read or movies I watch.

But then I remembered something I saw in the news recently ... Cormac McCarthy, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Road,' dies at 89.

I've only read one of his books, The Road, but the main characters are a father and son, and the story is about their relationship as they try to survive the apocalypse. Here's part of what Wikipedia has about The Road ...

The Road is a 2006 post-apocalyptic novel by American writer Cormac McCarthy. The book details the grueling journey of a father and his young son over a period of several months across a landscape blasted by an unspecified cataclysm that has destroyed industrial civilization and almost all life. The novel was awarded the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction in 2006. The book was adapted into a film of the same name in 2009, directed by John Hillcoat ...

If you saw the film and didn't really care for it, I'd still recommend the book, because it is very much better. Having said that, it was one of the most depressing and heart-wrenching stories I've ever read, so good as it is I doubt I will ever re-read it.