Bill Warrington's Last Chance: Library Edition

Will his children forgive Bill's former alcoholism and abusive behavior and reunite before Bill's mind is gone? Bill Warrington's Last Chance follows the cantankerous Bill Warrington, an elderly Korean War veteran and widower, on his quest to reconcile with his three grown children and his teenage granddaughter before he succumbs to Alzheimer's. When fifteen-year-old April runs away from home, she talks her cranky grandpa into driving with her from Ohio to San Francisco, where she hopes to be a rock singer. Bill's hidden agenda, however, is to force his three alienated children to work together to ''rescue'' April from the irresponsible old man. Tension increases as the reader realizes that Bill's mind is deteriorating so quickly that he cannot possibly protect April. Will Bill's children forgive his former alcoholism and abusive behavior before his mind is gone? Will the family be reunited? In this dazzling road trip novel, James King masterfully explores themes of aging, sibling rivalry, family dysfunction, and coming of age, against a backdrop of the American heartland. Unflinching, funny, and poignant, Bill Warrington's Last Chance speaks to that universal longing for familial reconciliation, love, forgiveness and a happy ending.