Welcome to the WBEZ book Club. I'm Jordan Rich. Local author Patrick McShane
has penned a beautiful tribute to his late father called Five Days with Dad.
Now, Patrick McShane has meanted his life's work to care for older adults.
Patrick is currently the director of sales and Marketing at a senior living facility called
New Pond Village in Walpole. It's a beautiful spot. Up and out there
as a speaker many times, he's written an engaging book that focuses on his
own family, a big one coping with the loss of a patriarch, Gerard
McShane. The inevitability of losing an elderly parent is something so many of us
have to come to grips with. This is just one family story of humor
amidst the heartbreak of a proud father who gets the chance to say goodbye to
his children and they to him. The story had me tearing up. The
writing is exceptional and I'd recommend it to anyone who's experienced the loss of an
aging parent. Five Days with Dad by Patrick McShane. That's the book Club.
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