In all sincerity, the book does not propel any of these. The book most closely parallels the 1984 Academy Award Winning-movie, Terms of Endearment. It talks about love, hate, humor, and even life and death on its own terms. I have tested the book on several different audiences. The first was an Illinois State University student who told me it must have taken me years to write it. I did not tell her that I wrote it in four months.