This is a book about Glen Graber. But more than that, it's about a man called Glen Slick, the son of Simon Slick, the son of Jackson Graber. It's a story about names, and being determined to change your place in the world, and the miraculous reversals of fortune. It's about the prayers of a mother, the idiosyncrasies and love of a father, and the strength of a family. It is, in other words, the story of us.