How do you forgive the man who took everything?

Jonah A. Thorne III is the debut author of  To the Man I Called Father, an unadorned and unflinchingly honest memoir about the abuse of his child by his own beloved father — and the devastation it left behind, not just in its victim, but across an entire family. Writing in a plain, unsparing voice that trades literary flourish for gut-wrenching truth, Thorne traces a father's reckoning with betrayal, a justice system that rarely serves the wounded, the shattering of identity, and the long, uncertain road toward a fragile healing. He writes under a pen name to protect the privacy of those he loves and those whose lives appear in these pages, and he tells this story for the survivors and families who will recognize their own in it.