This friend, says Thoo, has fathered four children — three of which he had in three years, and Thoo reckons that if he (the friend) wanted seven children, he’d have them in no time at all.
Playwright and writer James Thoo had always wanted to be a father. His own complex relationship with his nononsense, tough-love father made him more determined to have children. But when James was diagnosed with low sperm motility, any prospect of having children seemed dashed — until he and his wife, Alicia, decided on in-vitro fertilisation, or IVF. He shares their journey to parenthood in his new book, Palooka: Twelve Rounds to Fatherhood, an intimate, honest and humorous take on trying to do one of most fundamental things expected of a man: to sire a child.
SINGAPORE (July 3): Award-winning playwright, screenwriter and author James Thoo has a friend he calls “Penis Hawkeye”, after the Marvel comic superhero, Hawkeye, who wields a bow with faultless accuracy.
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