Making a Better World

From the author of The Mystical Adventures of Stavros Papadakis comes a comic novel about family faith and second chances.Oscar Perilloux a middle-age widower and cash-strapped artist is trying to be good: a good father a good brother a good son. But its not easy. His conniving neer-do-well mother has just been kicked out of a retirement home and needs a place to live. His rich egomaniacal brother is dating the woman he secretly desires. And his seven-year-old daughter whose innocence Oscar is trying mightily to preserve is becoming more and more interested in the grown-up world. Meanwhile Oscars childhood pal whose life reached its high-point in high school becomes the object of a social-media firestorm that threatens to destroy the harmony of their idyllic New Hampshire hometown.A mix of satire and romance family drama and social commentary the novel touches on a number of todays hot-button issues: internet cancel culture woke capital the crisis in the Catholic Church the treatment of the elderly and the raising of children. Witty and big-hearted Making a Better World takes a playful look at the way we live now.