Tell the Kids I Love Them

"As a boy, as a reporter, and now as an author, Jeremy Redmon has braved violence and its ugly aftermaths. On a search to render meaning from those inheritances, he has written the rawest and truest and most generous of stories."—John T. Edge, writer and host of TrueSouth, author of House of Smoke: A Southerner Goes Searching for Home

"Redmon's often-harrowing memoir about living with his father's suicide is extremely moving. He writes with bravery, honesty, and grace, but the best word to describe this memoir is sincere. I came away changed."—Mary V. Dearborn, author of Hemingway: A Biography

"With clear, precise prose, Jeremy Redmon takes us to war torn Iraq, Little League Lacrosse fields, marriage and fatherhood all in attempt to discover something of his father's journey from celebrated Vietnam era Air Force pilot to suicide in a cheap hotel room. What he learns contains lessons for us all."—Lolis Eric Elie, co- producer and writer for Faubourg Treme: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans

"I could speak at great length about the honesty and deep feeling of Jeremy Redmon's Tell the Kids I Love Them. But I would rather tell you simply to open it and read, for all that makes it such a beautiful book — its love, its pain, its grief and its hope — is baked into every sentence, from first to last. You will know, right away, that this is a special memoir."—Tom Junod, author of In The Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man