History DisappearedDad / Literature

* ''Literature/SixtyEightRooms'': Jack is raised only by his mother. The lack of a father isn't a plot issue, but their lack of money is.

** Alanna and Thome in the ''Literature/SongOfTheLioness'' series have the psychologically absent version; their father has never gotten over the death of their mother and more or less ignores them. They manage to pull a TwinSwitch for ''years'' despite being of different genders.

* The father of the main character in Esther Friesner's ''Gnome Man's Land''/''Harpy High''/''Unicorn U'' trilogy stepped out to get a newspaper and never came back. It's revealed in the middle book that this was due to [[spoiler: his becoming Champion of the Sidhe]].

* In ''Literature/TheBridgeOfClay'' Michael Dunbar is brought up by his mother after his father, a firefighter, was killed in a bush fire. Later on, he abandons his five sons.

* ''Literature/TheLastSong'': Ronnie and Jonah's parents have been divorced for 3 years at the start of the story (supposedly due to infidelity on their father's part) and they live with their mother; Ronnie has taken in hard to the point where she stopped playing the piano. The two siblings then go to visit their father for the summer, kicking off the plot.

** In the Chocolate Box Girls series, Honey, Skye, Summer and Coco's father, Greg, has left them for a new life in Australia. Later it's revealed that they have a half-brother as well, Jake, who also has no relationship with Greg.
** In 'Indigo Blue', Indie's father is well out of her life, as is her little sister's dad.
** The 'Lost And Found' series has a number: Phoenix's father is barely in her life, Sami's father (one of the only positively portrayed dad's in the series) is dead, Marley and Dylan's abusive father is in jail with a restraining order against him, Lexie's father doesn't even know she exists, Romy's dad ran out on the family and even before she was in foster care, Bex had a stepfather, implying this trope.

* ''Literature/IJedi'': Corran reflects on his father Hal, who died years book, often during the back largely because he begins his Jedi training and inherited Force sensitivity from his paternal line. After learning about how Luke lost his own father [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi in the moment he'd regained him]], Corran feels deep sympathy for him, knowing it's far worse than his experience, since at least he had many years with him and lots of happy memories.

* ''Literature/IJedi'': Corran reflects on his father Hal, who died years back, often during the back largely because he begins his Jedi training and inherited Force sensitivity from his paternal line. After learning about how Luke lost his own father [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi in the moment he'd regained him]], Corran feels deep sympathy for him, knowing it's far worse than his experience, since at least he had many years with him and many more happy memories.

** [[BigBad Tigerstar]] leaves his kits and their mother to join Shadowclan. There is a lot of bitterness involved as Tigerstar attempted to [[spoiler: murder Bluestar, the leader of Thunderclan, and also murdered Redtail, the former deputy]]. [[JustifiedTrope Unsurprisingly, Thunderclan does not want his kits, Bramblekit and Tawnykit, to [[TurnOutLikeHisFather turn out like their father]].

* ''Literature/AndThenITurnedIntoAMermaid'': The older Seabrook sisters' dad left after Molly was born, leaving Myla the only one old enough to really remember him. Five-year-old Minnie is the daughter of a different man, who is also out of the picture.