Keepers

the long version

Bobby Jack Nelson's Keepers relates one man's hilarious and heartbreaking search for nothing less than the meaning of his life. It is an urgent look back at a life lived in fast forward - a last-ditch attempt to confront the caprices of a blind fate that demands yet eludes understanding. What key might unlock the meaning behind a mother's bleak end to a bleak life? Or his epic, Thurberesque struggles against a new stepmother and four "step-snivelings"? When his amazingly desirable wife Tracy demanded, "Why don't you love me?" during his high-flying days as an ad exec, why did she have to ask it while pointing a .38 between his eyes? How did he ever manage to survive disasters as different as the abduction and murder of a young son or the loss of Darlene, the most beautiful girl in his woebegone hometown of Dalton, Texas?