The Council of Dads by Bruce Feiler

I just finished this book last night. It was really a warm fuzzy wonderful book. This guy finds out he has a really rare sarcoma cancer in his leg. In front of him he faces rounds of chemo and leg surgery, then more chemo. He calls it his "lost year". He comes up with a wonderful idea. He will choose 6 men, who embody certain traits that he has and finds very important as part of who he is, to act as father figures in case he doesn't make it. The book's chapters are intermittent talks about these men and what is important about them and what they would say to his twin daughters if anything were to happen to him and his own letters to his friends about what is happening with his health and his family. I finished this book feeling such admiration for the author, thinking what a great gift this is for his girls. At the end, he survives the year with great possibility and his daughters have these 6 great men in their life, including their father. My favorite line from the book is when the author is retelling the birth of his twin daughters who were born on April 15th, tax day. He called them Early Feiler and Late Feiler. Ha, ha - that cracks me up!!