Canned hope
Winslow is an autistic teenager trying to make sense of the world around him. He lives with his mother and the man he presumes is his grandfather. His father is a mystery to him, but that is about to change. Set in Atlanta, Canned Hope is a gritty novel that explores love and loss through the lives of a diverse cast of characters: childhood sweethearts with a terrible secret, a flamboyant gay couple bravely facing the AIDS crisis, a young Mexican-American woman who is sexually harassed, a burned-out cop who has lost his emotional bearings, street people who are marginalized. As lives intertwine, hopes and heartaches meld. Can hope grow when all seems lost?
"Time? How much time? A moment? A minute? A month? A millennium? What does time matter? When there is that human connection, even the slightest touch of a caring hand, what does it matter? When we are not alone, we are timeless."