This audiobook sample is intended for promotional purposes only. You can purchase the audiobook on Audible and Amazon. Narration provided by Kelly L’Heureux. Introduction and outro narration provided by Wondervox.

I Am My Father’s Child: A True Story of History, Mystery, Betrayal, and Forgiveness

In every life, there are moments that shimmer just beneath the surface of memory—encounters, decisions, and turning points that, at the time, felt ordinary but would come to shape the very fabric of who we are. This book is a journey into such moments: the recollections of a daughter navigating the joys and sorrows of family, the unpredictability of change, and the search for belonging across places and decades.

Woven through these pages are the voices of those I have loved and learned from, especially my father, whose gentle wisdom guided me through the tumult and beauty of growing up. As I open these doors to my past, I invite you to step inside, to witness the laughter and grief, the certainty and doubt, and perhaps find echoes of your own story along the way.

FROM THE VIVID PRESS CATALOG

Lost in Time, Found Again: Vivid Press Brings Three Forgotten Classics Back to Life

A Marriage Below Zero, The Willows, and Carmilla — newly available in Vivid Press Editions

Some books were ahead of their time. Some were buried by it. And some were simply waiting for readers who were ready for them. At Vivid Press, we believe certain stories deserve a second life — not as museum pieces, but as living texts that speak directly to who we are now. That conviction is behind our newest Vivid Press Editions: three works of extraordinary power that have been overlooked, undervalued, or quietly allowed to slip into obscurity.

We are proud to announce that A Marriage Below Zero, The Willows, and Carmilla are now available in Vivid Press Editions — beautifully republished and ready to find the audiences they always deserved.

A Marriage Below Zero

Alan Dale’s 1889 novel was scandalous when it appeared — and then it largely vanished. Written by a woman under a male pen name, A Marriage Below Zero is a sharp, darkly comic indictment of a marriage between a woman and a closeted gay man, told from the wife’s increasingly desperate point of view. It is a story about denial, social performance, and the loneliness of being the person in the room who sees clearly what everyone else refuses to acknowledge.

What makes this novel remarkable is not just its subject matter — which was virtually unspoken in mainstream fiction of the era — but its voice. The narrator is observant, wry, and wounded in equal measure. She is not a victim so much as a woman trapped by the conventions of a world that offers her no honest language for what she’s experiencing. Over a century later, the novel reads with startling freshness. The Vivid Press Edition presents the full original text with a new introduction placing the work in its literary and cultural context.