After his death, this Cambridge author found out her dad's stories weren't always true

When Cambridge author Joanna Rakoff was a kid, her dad told her stories about his life that seemed straight out of Hollywood. After he died, she learned a lot of them were made up, including some he recounted about her mother.

Rakoff wrote about those stories in an essay called "A Storybook Childhood," which is included in a new book of essays called "What My Father and I Don't Talk About: Sixteen Writers Break the Silence," edited by Michele Filgate.

Rakoff joins WBUR's Morning Edition to discuss her dad and the essay ahead of Father's Day.