
A Life Without Grace dissects a tense few days in the life of Grayson Eilers, a successful baby-boomer. Grayson, a freelance speechwriter, receives an urgent message from his sister that their mother has suffered a severe heart attack. She is alive, but her condition remains critical. For more than three decades, Grayson has compartmentalized his life, distancing himself physically and emotionally...
Paperback: 380 pages
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (March 24, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1452839867
ISBN-13: 978-1452839868
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.9 x 8.5 inches
Amazon Rank: 10430399
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A Life without Grace focuses on the seemingly perfect world of Grayson Eilers, a man with an adoring wife and two grown children, whose life is suddenly hijacked by the past when his estranged mother suffers a massive heart attack. With his wife and ...
odest origins that his mother, his sister and his two brothers represent, while dedicating himself to his new family: his wife and two children. After a terse conversation with his sister, Grayson, feeling angry and helpless, accepts his inevitable moral imperative: returning to Omaha to confront family members with whom he has never shared any commonality. He arrives in Omaha on the eve of a spring snowstorm that delays the arrival of his wife and his two children, leaving Grayson isolated to cope with the cascade of both predictable and unexpected emotions inherent in his stressful reunion with his estranged family.