“Making Do”: I’m in Commonweal

with an actual review of Doing the Best I Can: Fatherhood in the Inner City:

Painfully conscientious, rule-bound, and motivated more by spiritual longings than by practical material concerns—these aren’t the terms in which most Americans think of low-income unmarried fathers.

subscribers-only for now; I’ll let you know if that changes. I had a more thematic piece on penitence in the book, not really a review, here.