Richard Reiss

Desperate Love: a Father's Memoir Richard Reiss

In this searing memoir, a father confronts the complex issues of love and hate as he struggles to deal with his emotionally troubled and often violent son. Desperate Love examines the lengths that parents go to preserve their families and rescue children from themselves. Often gritty and occasionally funny, this extraordinary memoir follows one father?s quest for love, faith, redemption and understanding in a life beleaguered with infertility, adoption and adolescent aggression.