Publisher's Synopsis
Once Upon America, an epic battle was brewing in the unlikeliest place.Was the battle personal? Successful Chicago investor J. Bradley Libbert thought so. Decades after freeing himself of his provincial, poverty-stricken upbringing, he found himself dragged back into old family matters. In the midst of his fast-paced business deals, he was challenged to return to the rundown farm of his miserable childhood to settle the nickel-and-dime affairs of his elderly mother. Della Libbert, an imposing woman who lost her sense of reality years ago in cobwebs of nostalgia and dementia, didn't intend to make her son's task easy.Was the battle a local issue? The small farming town of Bertha, Minnesota, believed it was a battle for survival. One look at the closed businesses and abandoned houses revealed the realities of a rural economy in collapse and in desperate need of a miracle fix. Rallying together to fight for its very existence, the community put its last hope in an ingenious experimental energy plant. The only thing stopping them from prosperity was the crazy old lady on the edge of town, pitting the good of the majority against the rights of the individual. Was the battle a glimpse of what's happening in America? Absolutely, according to the friends and family of Della and her slow-thinking sister, Clara. The feelings and behaviors hurled at the two old women during the whirlwind of events reflected the greater attitudes and opinions occurring across the nation-the consequences of pushing God aside in favor of relative truths.Or was the battle something bigger than them all? The short, stocky fieldman for NuDay Enterprises knew. He seen this battle fought many times before. While little humans wrap themselves inside their little lives, the battle rages all around. It always made him smile.Yes, Winston Lawrence knew. And so did crazy ol' "Liberty Dell".Open your heart to the lives of ordinary people to unravel the extraordinary miracle of life. You'll discover what's true, what's important, and what happened to the last American.
