ISBN# 0-941138-14-3

$14.95 - 318 pages

Chronicles the story of a young father who, in 1920, loses his wife after the birth of their second child. When his wife's sisters come to take his babies, as was the custom then, he said, "I am keeping them. I will have lost everything if I give my children away."

His love for his children is told through his daughter who also reveals insight into the feelings of his little boy and little girl growing up without a mother. As his daughter is faced with fearful difficulties in her adult life, she calls upon the same kind of courage and determination she had seen in her father. His son becomes a vital parent in his married life, indicating that men who nurture have sons who nurture.

This intergenerational story is told in a new page-turning literary style which sweeps the reader along through the hills and valleys of one family's life against the backdrop of The Great Depression, World War II, and the post-war boom. It includes an understanding of all the stages of life, from birth to old age to the acceptance of death.