A Lesson in Perserverance
in 62 Easy Pages

Reviewed by Carolyn Howard-Johnson, author of "This is the Place"
and "Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered"

"Saving Adam" by L. Smith is one evening’s read that will stay with you. Told primarily from the viewpoint of a woman for whom perseverance and faith are bywords, I was inspired to read it through to the end in one sitting.

A tad short on some of the writing skills we are accustomed to finding in memoirs, this story works for me. It is told with humor, the language is spare and the protagonist is a woman in charge of her own destiny. It also does not preach. It simply tells the story of a woman who loves and, in doing so, affects the lives of those around her.

"Saving Adam" is, in short, a poem to the universe told without metaphor, meter or rhyme.

(Carolyn Howard-Johnson is the author of the award-winning "This is the Place." Leora Krygier, author of "First the Raven" says Howard-Johnson "paints us a picture of Utah, love, family and intolerance in beautiful strokes." She has also written a screenplay called "The Killing Ground.")