What happens when one man
asks 50 women to share
their lives with him?
Author and speaker Kevin Renner wanted to
know where an ordinary dad could learn to
raise extraordinary daughters.
So where did he turn? To women.
After struggling with the question, and the daily work of raising two pre-teen girls, the author took a digital recorder and a
box of Kleenex, and spent a year interviewing 50 women from
around the world and across eight decades. His goal: to learn
how fathers—from terrific to tragic—had shaped their daughters’ lives, for better or worse.
Their humorous, painful, and inspiring accounts--and his--became “In Search of Fatherhood: Daughters Praising, Speaking
Up, Talking Back.” It includes the painful, humorous, and inspiring accounts of the fathering received by women famous
to anonymous, executives to sex workers, fully alive and lucky
to be alive.
An engaging and entertaining speaker, Kevin Renner brings audiences to their feet—and to tears.
www.kevin-renner.com 503.703.9662
“If you read one book about
fathers and daughters, read
this one.”
“Reading Kevin Renner’s
memoir of fatherhood
prompts me to say to women,
Betsy I. Davenport, Ph.D. regardless of age, culture, or
background: ‘Tell me if and
how your father loved you as a
“Kevin Renner has written a
modern-day book of wisdom… child, and I’ll tell you whether
or not you have found love as
No reader will finish this
a woman’.”
book either unmoved or unchanged.”
Charlene Kate Kavanagh,
Ph.D.
The Rev. Stephen V. Schneider