The biggest takeaways from the memoir, out April 6.
If you were to ask Hunter Biden about the thesis of his new memoir,Beautiful Things(Apr.
His father, of course, is President Joe Biden.
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He opens the book with the death of his brother, Beau his absence haunts most of the book.
“I pressed my cheek against my brother’s forehead, then kissed it,” he writes.
There are always so many Bidens.
As children, Hunter and Beau have grandparents, aunts, uncles, a half-sister circling them constantly.
The result is, purposeful or not, a portrait of our current President as the ultimate Patriarch.
As open as Biden is with his losses, he’s guarded about other elements.
you might almost hear the conversation with a political strategist (what are we going to say about Ukraine?
Biden never needed to answer for everything in one book.
He doesn’t owe us the world, but as readers, we’re left to piece things together.
“He did it, Beau!”
Hunter writes in the book’s epilogue, which is formatted as a final letter to his brother.
“The bravest boy and man I’ve ever known,” he inscribes.
“I love you more than the whole sky.”
