The Trial of Jerry Sweeting is a fun romp through a phaseof anunconventional family's heart-ache and heart-break, and a heart-warming literary ride. This book entails a crime of impassion rather than passion, and the redemption of one's character. This book is a fast and compelling read. The Trial of Jerry Sweeting will move your heart and soul to not only seeing these characters deal with real life challenges but also allow you in seeing yourself and people you know in many of the characters. This regional story about a same gender loving blended family in the South has a universal appeal for all ethnic groups, genders, and ages. The family configuration you'll encounter is not about our skin color, our gender, or our mannerisms. It is about unconditional love we have for one another. It shows thatallchildren ever want is love, acceptance, and encouragement, and the characters in this book find it, with the help of theirnew extended-parent thattakes on the responsibility of guiding them. Throughout this book, your emotions will have you feeling like you're on a cleverly engineered rollercoaster. The Trial of Jerry Sweeting will embrace you, the reader and take you to the roots of human behavior, innocence, experience, kindness, cruelty, love, hatred, humor and sorrow. Hold on and experience "the rush" as you are launched from the station. You'll feel moments of euphoria as if you're suspended in air with your feet dangling. At the end you'll be left with a memory you'll never forget. We feel the powerful message that you will experience clearly identifies this and will become one of your favorite books to read and share with your friends and book clubs. All the proceeds of this book benefits the HIV Intervention Project.www.HIPAtlanta.org"