Trent Preszler’s Little and Often a profound father-son tale of discovery and reconciliation Don Oldenburg
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In Trent Preszler’s insightful, lyrical prodigal-son memoir Little and Often (William Morrow, 304 pp., ★★★★ out of four), a telling scene embodies the book’s underlying philosophy. In high school, Preszler got a miserable summer job scraping peeling paint on an old brick barn. He came home the first day sunburned, knuckles bloody and vowing to quit.
“It ain’t going to be easy. Nuthin’ is,” his father told him the next morning driving Preszler back to the barn. Together, they scraped one single brick after another until Preszler got the message – do a little at a time.