This story is about Midwest, blue collar insecurity and the redeeming quality of love. It follows the main character's path from a simple uncomplicated life, through a world of wealth and power. But it eventually returns to the only thing that matters
Stanley finds a hitchhiking runaway without a plan. That doesn't last long, though, as the runaway comes up with a good one, saving a broken relationship while creating a new one. Romance abounds.
Grady Potter had a long-time friend, Ed, who died. He is taking care of the estate until Ed's niece named Katherine shows up to claim her inheritance. The two don't hit it off too well. Different personalities build resentment between them, but they do agree to exchange Christmas cards.
I'm Tom Brostwin and this is the story of my life with my daughter Heather before she went to college, and we moved our home to the New Neighborhood in New Hampshire. She and I became lovers on her eighteenth birthday and my taste for barely legal teenage virgins continued to grow.
Due to the economic downturn a newly unemployed suburban father steps in to the role of house husband. When he does he realizes how out of touch he has been to his daughters, and the world they live in. The more he interacts with that life, the more he learns about them, his wife, and the people he thought he knew.