In Letters to My Sons, M.G. Bianco writes real letters to his real sons on a variety of topics. While it may seem to be a book on parenting, fatherhood, sons, and the birds and the bees, it is really a book on what it means to be human and on the nature of human relationships. It is a book from which everyone, man or woman, can get something.

Relationships, rather than esteeming others in their full humanity, are often reduced to mechanical and consumer-based interactions where both parties are dehumanized. We even look at others as if they are nothing more than an object to be...