Mack Kincaid leaves behind his personal journals, started in 1951 and dripping with the thoughts of a WWII veteran eager to be a writer, to get as many girls as he can, and to free their future husbands from women’s inappropriately high expectations. As he cavorts, he leaves little to the imagination and admits freely to being a villain.
It is, however, not his destiny to be the bad guy, no matter his valiant efforts. Always on the cusp of greatness with his mission, he fails endlessly by being the reluctant savior to an unwanted pit bull dog, an abused woman, and worst of all, a three-year-old boy who begs him to become his adopted father. With all these responsibilities, his desire to sabotage himself and those around him intensifies by the day. His life changes when he meets his homosexual benefactor in Los Angeles, and through a divorce, death, a triangle love story, and the beginning of voluntary rescues, he finally realizes that the way to be the hero of your own story is to keep the bar set very low and forgive yourself.
Literary fiction, historical fiction.
Amy Liming 