Books like Tell me a tattoo story by Alison McGhee

A boy asks questions about his father after he wakes up in his arms.

Father and son go camping, but who is really taking care of whom?

A baseball story about a teenage boy who battles to maintain his father's love of the game, showing how fathers and sons speak from the heart.

289 pages ; 21 cm

A comic book about a boy's search for his father, who died when he was a child.

A boy named Barney Willow transforms into a cat and must navigate a new school to save his missing father.

"Tattoos have become increasingly popular in recent years, especially among young people. While tattooing is used as a symbol of personal identity and social communication, there has been little sociological study of the phenomenon. In Tattooed: The Sociogenesis of a Body Art, tattoo enthusiasts share their stories about their bodies and tattooing experiences. Michael Atkinson shows how enthusiasts negotiate and celebrate their 'difference' as it relates to the social stigma attached to body art - how the act of tattooing is as much a response to the stigma as it is a form of personal expression - and how a generation has appropriated tattooing as its own symbol of inclusiveness. Atkinson further demonstrates how the displaying of tattooed bodies to others - techniques of disclosure, justification, and representation - has become a part of the shared experience." "Cultural sensibilities about tattooing are discussed within historical context and in relation to broader trends in body modification, such as cosmetic surgery, dieting, and piercing. The author also employs research from a number of disciplines, as well as contemporary sociological and postmodern theory, to analyze the enduring social significance of body art."--Jacket.

A father and son visit a barbershop for the first time to have their hair cut.

A teenage boy confronts the reality of his father's past and the complex relationship with his grandfather as he begins to forgive him for a murder he committed.

A young boy tries to keep his dying father's wishes a secret in the lead-up to India's partition in 1947.

Tai Shan and his father, Baba, greet one another with flying kites during China's Cultural Revolution, symbolizing hope and freedom.