American dream

Shelby Thrall sat thinking back over the thirty futile years of his existence, just another newspaper man, from whom the wrench and violence of modern life had torn away all faith. While going through some old letters in the attic, he reminisced on the hard lives his grandfather and father had led, part of which was through their own fault while searching for a better life and the American Dream somewhere yet to be found... This novel covers three generations of the somewhat dysfunctional Thrall family, from the 1840s to the early 20th century.