After Visiting Friends, a powerful new memoir by GQ deputy editor Michael Hainey, paints the wrenching portrait of a family steeped in silence after the mysterious death of Hainey’s father, a Chicago newspaperman. Obituaries reported that he had simply died “after visiting friends.” But as an adult, Hainey sought to uncover the story behind his father’s passing, teasing the truth from a tangled network of relatives and his father’s friends. In this excerpt, Hainey, who began his literary career at Spy magazine under Vanity Fair’s editor, Graydon Carter, narrates the tense and secretive mother/son dynamic he is forced to navigate in the wake of