The Gems of Inverness chronicles Len's walk on the path of manhood in contemporary America as a husband, a father, and a lawyer. His journey evolves from ambiguity, confusion, and despair imposed on him by family traditions, ethnicity, and Catholicism, to an eventual clarity evoked by his care, with his wife, Barbara, of their sons, Benjamin and Gregory, both of whom were unexpectedly born with profound developmental disabilities.

In the early chapters, Len is lost, buffeted by the overwhelming emotional pain and physical burden of parenting disabled children, as well as by difficulties in his marriage, career, and relationships. His anguish and desperation steadily wane as he focuses on the health problems of his sons and on creating a loving, caring home for them--it is then when he finds new insight on the beaches of Inverness, Nova Scotia. His epiphany is not a rejection of his ancestry, ethnicity, and Catholicism, but is instead a redefinition and translation of his past into his present, consistent with the manhood he seeks to live.

Poetic and powerful, The Gems of Inverness will touch hearts and change minds for years to come.