What does a father mean when you've never had one?
Every week, The Thread checks in with booksellers around the country about their favorite books of the moment. This week, we spoke with Jake Howell from Commonplace Books in Oklahoma City, Okla.The novel "The Last Samurai" by Helen DeWitt first caught bookseller Jake Howell's eye because it shares a title with a Tom Cruise movie.Sorry, Cruise fans, there's no relation. But you don't want to miss the book.DeWitt's novel is instead a meditation on family that experiments with form and style.It follows a woman who gives birth and chooses to raise her son without a father. "The mother is…
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