Letter to my Father Kelly Elliott but Josh considers it to

but Josh considers it to be down-right impossible

of which I am a part of

The book is grounded in decades of collaborative

Billy Watkins is a features writer with the Jackson (MS) Clarion-Ledger

He holds degrees in history and mathematics from Stanford

Letter to my Father Kelly Elliott but Josh considers it toThis letter is the closest that Kafka came to setting down his autobiography. He was driven to write it by his father's opposition to his engagement with Julie Wohryzek. The marriage did not take place; the letter was not delivered. 'In his preface he [the translator Howard Colyer] states that he was most concerned to reproduce the raw "venting of feelings" in the letter as well as the extraordinary "momentum of the prose." In both these aims he