Winners and Losers

<p>Lily knows what she wants.</p><p></p><p>She wants to know the meaning of the postcards her absent father sends her - cryptic words and images that reveal nothing of his life or feelings. Once she makes up her fourteen-year-old mind she doesn't hesitate to leave her grandmother and travel cross-country to intrude on Herman the reclusive great-uncle she barely knows who might hold some clues.</p><p></p><p>Isn't that what family is for?</p><p></p><p>In <em>Winners and Losers</em> a teenage runaway and a gruff old man come to realize each in their way that knowledge need not mean having all the answers while they attempt to fathom the connection between obligation and love.</p>