Publisher's Synopsis
Everyone has reasons to remember their childhood including the friends and family members who remain with us long after they have died. In Waving Back, the author makes a humorous and engaging attempt to communicate with the deceased parents who helped him make his way through life. A fast read, it is an entertaining, intriguing chronicle of a family's brief time together, of missed opportunities and sacrifices made, of a family the way they were and the way they are today. Dear Mom and Dad: It has been more than sixty years since your deaths. As a child, I didn't fully appreciate the difficulties, hardships, worries and hopes you shared in your short lives. Nor did I understand just how very young you both were. In your forties. Today, your grandchildren are that age and I think of them as kids. So much has happened since you died. And mom, they never did tell me what you died of two years later, but I'm convinced it was from a broken heart... Read this book and take your own personal trip down memory lane. This enticing saga will have you recalling the fond memories from life and perhaps shedding a tear or two.
