What a tragic but loving story dealing with an super achieving father who had great monumental plans for his family, himself and his children. Unfortunately, his one son Lee, was a disappointment and while Lee suffered from multiple learning disabilities, his father rose to the pinnacle of success in the advertising world.

Unable to understand Lee's inability with a philosophy of you need to try harder, it wasn't until the devastating news of Lee's impending death from a massive brain tumor, that made Alan Pesky reflect on both his life and the life of his now thirty year old son.

After Lee's death, Alan, his wife and his family decide of a way in which to honor Lee's memory. They established and ran the Lee Pesky Learning Center, dedicated to helping children having learning issues find their way to learning and not feeling like one who is unable learn like others.

The institute, over its twenty-five years history, has helped more that 100,000 children and is a fitting tribute to both Lee and the people who founded it.

The book is an interesting look into how we as parents at times do expect quite a lot from our children. We fail to recognize that everyone has their strengths along withe their weaknesses and it is often these weaknesses that can determine our ability to look at our children with a clear eye.

I enjoyed the story, but did wish that Alan Pesky had left out some of the details of how successful he himself was. It tended to take away from Lee I thought. I could see in his reflections how he must have been a tough taskmaster in both his job and his children's lives. I left the story with a sense of happiness that something so wonderful was able to come from something so tragic as the death of a son.

Thank you to the authors, Skyhorse Publishing, and NetGalley for a copy of this book which was published on September 7, 2021.