A Very Rich Man Author:Dixon Long This family drama explores the private lives of a wealthy and prominent family living near Cleveland. Danny and Amy Wainwright, brother and sister, have escaped a dysfunctional upbringing and made new lives and careers in San Francisco. Their father, Jason, who heads a successful investment firm, unexpectedly asks Danny to come back to Cleveland... more » to help in a vaguely described project to make the world a better place. Danny neither understands his father's wish, nor is persuaded he should change the life he has chosen, and rejects the idea. Some months later Jason suffers a ruptured cerebral aneurism and is hospitalized, on the verge of death. Their mother Elaine, has skirted mental instability for years and her husband's medical emergency tips her into manic behavior. Danny and Amy return to Cleveland to deal with their parents' fractured lives, and are sucked into a vortex of painful memories. Subsequent events show that neither Jason's nor Elaine's lives have been what they seem. A trail of secrets threatens to shatter the peace Danny and Amy have found in their new lives on the West Coast. Howard Junker, editor of ZYZZYVA, says that this novel is within the great tradition of family dramas from Austen to Thomas and Tom Wolfe.« less