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NORTHSHOREMAG.COM 46 DECEMBER 2019 PHOTOGRAPH BY HOLLY RIKE (RIGHT) reminds them of what those days were like." Hennick has been a full-time freelancer for more than a decade, with bylines in The Boston Globe, Runner's World, and Eating Well, among other publications. Family was an On the eve of publishing Once More to the Rodeo, Calvin Hennick is a bundle of mixed emotions. There's a sense of relief, after a year of all-nighters and endless revisions, to have finally achieved a childhood dream and finish his first book. Early feedback has been overwhelmingly positive; Kirkus Reviews— known for its prickly takedowns—gave it a glowing appraisal and rare starred review. But the Boston-based writer and Northshore contributor has at least a few anxieties now that he's laid himself bare across 220 pages. "For better or worse," he says, "I don't think I held much back." Once More to the Rodeo, set to be published through Pushcart Press on December 10, is ostensibly a memoir about family and fatherhood. Centered around a 2016 road trip the then-34-year-old Hennick took with his five-year-old son, the story is deeply personal, mining Hennick's strained family history to form an inquiry into the changing nature of what it means to be a man, the fraught racial politics of modern America, and the sense of dislocation that every committed parent feels. "It's obviously [a book] about fatherhood, but it's not a book primarily for men," Hennick says. "A lot of people who've been parents have told me it either resonates with their current experience of being a parent or it takes them back to when their children were little and Local author's memoir Once More to the Rodeo receives high praise. BY JEFF HARDER PERSONAL JOURNEY occasional subject in his writing before he became a parent during his final year in the University of Massachusetts Boston's creative writing MFA program. He was consumed with ideas around what it means to raise a child successfully, a subject magnified by the PURCHASE amazon.com F A C E S + P L A C E S