The Tender Bar

The Tender Bar: A Memoir (2005) by J.R. Moehringer. Deserted by his father, cared for by a loving mother who is barely able to cope, Moehringer at a young age turned to the men of a neighborhood bar to provide him with parenting. He made the best of it, and came to love the men, and the bar, as much as he might have loved his real father. Grade: A