In the summer of 1954, a series of heart attacks gives the author's father, Mark Hayes, two years from hell until a third kills him in 1956.  The memoir follows a trail left behind by family stories, photographs, letters, diaries, paintings, drawing, and archival records to recreate his father's lost world from its roots in the family's emigration from Ireland to the good times of its life in the 1950's Midwest...summary

Nick Hayes teaches at Saint John's University and is a regular contributor to broadcast and print media...bio

AND ONE FINE MORNING
MEMORIES OF MY FATHER
By Nick Hayes