Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
The King of Nothing Much is a story about fatherhood in a time of transition.
Weldon Tines, 41, is a stay-at-home dad who has outlived his usefulness in the role. The twins--Danny and Reese--have just started kindergarten, his older daughter Presley wants nothing to do with him, and his wife Deb makes enough money for the family to live on. Newly rudderless, Weldon struggles to understand his purpose on this earth. Who is it that can tell him who he is?
When Weldon slides gleefully down an inflatable slide at a child's birthday party, only to come crashing into the birthday boy, he thinks he's just done something stupid that will lead only to hassle and headache. But he's really gotten into something else entirely: the beginning of a quest for personal discovery, a quest that culminates in a dramatic flourishing of Weldon's deep-seated heroism.
The King of Nothing Much speaks, in Johnson's singular voice, to what it means to be a father and a husband in the age of Toxic Masculinity.
Synopsis
Hilarious, incisive, and uncomfortably familiar.--Jonathan Evison, author of The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving: A Novel
Johnson perfectly captures both the ennui and elation of parenthood and the mundanity and magic of marriage . . . I love this little book."--T. Greenwood, author of Rust & Stardust
The King of Nothing Much is a story about parenthood in a time of transition.
Weldon Tines, 41, is a stay-at-home dad who has outlived his usefulness in the role. The twins--Danny and Reese--have just started kindergarten, his older daughter Presley wants nothing to do with him, and his wife Deb makes enough money for the family to live on. Newly rudderless, Weldon struggles to understand his purpose on this earth. Who is it that can tell him who he is?
When Weldon slides gleefully down an inflatable slide at a child's birthday party, only to come crashing into the birthday boy, he thinks he's just made a mistake that will lead only to hassle and headache. Instead, it kick-starts a quest for personal discovery that culminates in a dramatic flourishing of Weldon's deep-seated heroism.
Witty and original, The King of Nothing Much speaks to what it means to be a father and a husband in the age of toxic masculinity.