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    The Gems of Inverness: A Father's Odyssey Through a World of Disablities

    By Len Gulino

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    Here is a memoir as painful and joyful, and as real and memorable, as life itself.
    The Gems of Inverness, chronicles Len's walk on the path of manhood in contemporary America as a husband, a father, and a lawyer. His journey, evolving from ambiguity, confusion, and despair imposed on him by family traditions, ethnicity, and Catholicism, to an eventual clarity evoked by his care, with his wife, Barbara, of their sons, Benjamin and Gregory, both of whom were unexpectedly born with profound developmental disabilities. The memoir's trajectory reflects Len's evolution. In the early chapters, he's lost in life, buffeted by the overwhelming emotional pain and physical burden of parenting disabled children, as well as by difficulties in his marriage, career, and relationships. His anguish and desperation steadily wane as he focuses on the health problems of his sons and on creating a loving, caring home for them, a focus that takes him to an epiphany he finds on the beaches of Inverness, Nova Scotia. His epiphany is not a rejection of his ancestry, ethnicity, and Catholicism, but is instead a redefinition and translation of his past into his present, consistent with the manhood he seeks to live.  

    Poetic and powerful, The Gems of Inverness will touch hearts and change minds for years to come.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLen Gulino
    Release dateNov 17, 2019
    ISBN9781393095828
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