The Monkey Wrench Dad is a collection of 42 essays that tell the story and forge a manifesto of one family's endeavoring to live well. It is a hunt for and discovery of things to live and to fight for that challenges readers to think about and act upon why and how they live somewhere: in a landscape, in a community, in a family, and in a crazy, challenging time. As such, The Monkey Wrench Dad is about things to do, in the world we really live in, here and now.