My Father Author:Bob Cole When Teri Lilt Mott sets out to chronicle her father, Tommy's life, she does not know that it will become a novel that is told in a series of episodes ranging from his torrid, early-teen romance with beautiful ex-prostitute, Cheryl, whose love and brutal death haunt him the rest of his life; to his affair with Terry, who, pregnant with their so... more »n, is secreted away by her parents. Years later, she returns with son, Johnie; she and Tommy wed; Lilt is born, and becomes the lovely girl whose effervescence and beauty remind him of Cheryl, whose vision returns at the most inopportune times, particularly when Johnie is dying of leukemia. The novel is interspersed with personal notes and insights from interviews with older brother, Arnie, giving it an aura of truth, and concludes when, after Tommy's death, her mother provides the shocking revelation that may have hastened his death.« less