FATHER Everlasting

About the Book

When Jim O’Brien loses the only job he has ever had, he discovers that he may also be helpless to save his marriage and home. Forced to take menial jobs to survive, his complete devotion to an exquisitely beautiful but mentally handicapped daughter and precocious son soon becomes a weapon his wife wields against him as she strives for her own independence. Despair drives Jim to a series of extreme acts. His life of quiet desperation is examined in heartrending detail as he spirals out of control, an all-too familiar occurrence in a world of bottom-line corporate greed and societal indifference.

About the Author

David Ruggeri lives in Anaheim, California with his two cats, Booger and The Bushwhacker. As his children Kelly and Sean grew older and closer to inflicting themselves on the world at large and they threatened to leave him with a case of Empty Nest Syndrome, he returned to an old obsession, writing. Leaving a successful career as an executive in commercial and international banking, he found writing fiction and poetry more satisfying than a paycheck. He cheerfully interrupts his writing to spend time with his grandchildren, Ian and Kade.