The tender bar

The Tender Bar is a sweeping memoir that follows J.R.

Moehringer from his earliest childhood memories to his young adulthood.

Growing up in Manhasset, New York, Moehringer lived with his single mother in his grandfather's house and found male role models among the patrons of the local bar, Publicans.

The bar became a sanctuary and a place of education, where Moehringer learned valuable life lessons from men like his Uncle Charlie and other colorful characters.

The memoir explores themes of masculinity, identity, and belonging, and is a classic American story of self-invention and escape, highlighting the fierce love between a single mother and her only son.