I have been writing for most of my life, but this is the first time I’ve made an effort to have one of my works published. This is due to the unexpected laudatory comments from both readers and editors. One reader called the book “Shakespearean.“ Another thought it was “profound.“ I was born in the Midwest, majored in economics and, thereafter, earned a Juris Doctorate at Washington University in St. Louis. I found the moral ambiguity inherent in many legal fields to be distressing. It was then my wife and I decided to shatter our pre-cast life plan. With one baby in tow, we moved to Honolulu. I obtained a job with IBM, which turned into a career. While with IBM, we lived in Alaska and Colorado. It was there I decided it was time to start my own business, which grew to employ 1400 people. My wife and I have been married sixty years. We have three adult children and eleven grandchildren. I am a first generation American descended from Ashkenazi Jews. Part of my book deals with the suffering and brutality inherent in shtetl life in Eastern Europe. Several events occurring in the novel happened to my father, but in the novel, the protagonist is a young woman.