MALE OF THE SPECIES chronicles the lives of fathers in America--fathers of every race and class--heroic fathers, pathetic, abusive fathers, comical, desparate, and brave fathers. In it you'll meet an African American dentist who moves his family to an all white town in Vermont, only to struggle with his rebellious, artistic son, who has a penchant for burning crosses in his own front yard. A Vietnamese boat person--an Elvis impersonator who hangs on a wire above the slot machines in a Vegas casino--will tell the amazing story of how his father helped him escape from Vietnam. A brilliant horticulturist in Los Angeles will sneak his mentally ill father out of the psych ward and take him back to his childhood home. You'll meet a passionate birdwatcher; a grandiose, story-telling hunter; a destitute dancer in a gorilla costume; a science teacher who struggles with the small-mindedness of a football crazed West Texas town; and an old Mexican immigrant intent on stopping his daughter's lesbian wedding. In MALE OF THE SPECIES, you'll meet father after father, stumbling, sometimes nobly, sometimes ridiculously, towards something they never fully understood and getting what they never expected.