Robert Perske’s mystery (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1990), unfolds a story about how caring is born, giving life to all individuals rather than thinking about them as a group.

Perske reveals in the lives of two teens living with severe cerebral palsy “the countenance of two people committed to being the very best people they can be.” Interspersed throughout is a wealth of wisdom: “The best networkers seem to be incurable optimists. . . . A true network springs from the heart”; “One should never hold back the good music that is in people,” says Perske. Otherwise they will live and die with the best talents unrecognized; and “People who don’t know them will tend to see them as weaker and less than they are. At other times they are perceived as super persons with special insights and powers. Both views are unfair.”

Vera Losh, reviewer

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