Ten literary kids with deadbeat and/or absent dads

At The Hairpin, Julie Buntin came up with a list of favorite literary kids with deadbeat and/or absent dads, including:THOMAS CROMWELL
Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel

Wolf Hall, Book One in Hilary Mantel’s prize-sweeping Thomas Cromwell trilogy (she’s picked up a Booker, the National Book Critic Circle Award for fiction, and a billion other nominations), opens with Walter Cromwell beating the living