A gripping novel dramatizing the truth that for every loss there can be a redeeming gain, enabling us to go on living. Steve Irwin, a struggling playwright, is devoted to his actress wife Helen. Because Helen is an alcoholic, she is forced to accept the loss of a promising career. Steve, accidentally shot by Helen, overcomes a paralysis of body and spirit through the love and compassion of Anne Bousquet, a nun who lost her vocation and returned to the world. This is the story of three people Finding the courage to overcome Failure in the broadway theater, The war in the pacific, and doing "God's work" at an isolated South American Mission where poverty, ignorance and disease are mortal enemies.
Acceptable Losses, 2008, 176 pp.,
$15.95 ISBN 978-0-9801894-0-7