Croatias Groundbreaking Gay Novel I receive the news of my fathers grave illness with almost complete indifference. Im finding it mildly annoying, like road constructionHe called me just briefly; he doesnt want to bother me too much. Im at work right now. I hang up. Im furious at my fathers potentially terminal illness. I work at the reception desk of an okay hotelMy job is not demandingoften its boring, but it keeps my curiosity alive. I especially like working the evening shifts and figuring out who is sleeping with whom. At night, I get to read a lot. Secretly, I write poetry. Thus begins Daddy Issues, Dino Peuts novel about the generation born in 1990s Croatia. These young adults are sensitive, well-educated, and, for the most part, worse off than their parents, with little perspective aside from emigration. This heartwarming story of familial dysfunction tackles head-on the challenges of friendship, independence, sex and sexuality, mortality, and class. Peuts seco