That Adam Ehrlich Sachs's caustic and absurdist story collection is being released in time for Father's Day resembles nothing more than a joke you might find in the collection itself. Sachs, who is thirty and has written for Hollywood, is a newcomer to fiction, but it's hard to imagine a more assured debut: Each of its 117 father-and-son parables is saturated with sadness, cruelty, and, of course, humor.