An Acceptable Answer

In September, with four children to feed, a disabled husband, no health insurance, and a fifth on the way, Dolores Colletti was about to be forty and she ran out of answers. She knelt in front of her kitchen oven and made the only choice she thought she had left. Her husband Frank burst through the door just in time. Six months later, their son Danny arrived-a boy who would cheat death five times before his sixth birthday, fix any broken thing with his bare hands, and carry an unshakable certainty that everything was going to be okay.
But faith doesn't pay rent. As the years wear on and Frank's broken back takes more from the family than it gives back, Rose wonders if surviving is enough-or just a slower way to lose. Then a stubborn neighborhood doctor named Calloway reads Frank's X-rays, makes a few phone calls, and flat-out refuses to take no for an answer. AN ACCEPTABLE ANSWER is a story about the math of despair, the stubbornness of love, and the children we almost never had.