Joker's Playground

This book begins with the childhood sweetheart husband who was having strange behavior and nightmare flashbacks of Vietnam leaving his home. His wife and four young children are now stranded and alone. The wife is filled with two overwhelming emotions: (1) freedom as no longer would she have to deal with this unfathomable behavior and (2) extreme fear fear of how she and the children would pay for food and rent in this most expensive city. As the endless calls come in from doctors lawyers police and random women the wife decides to test the city's infinite possibilities of love and hope. This puts her on the brink of insanity.