Second Spring

In the late 1970s, Chucky O'Malley faces a midlife crisis as he searches for renewal and hope amidst a nation reeling from Vietnam and Watergate. Father Andrew M. Greeley continues his chronicles of the O'Malleys, a resourceful Irish-American family caught up in modern American history. In Second Spring, Charles "Chucky" O'Malley approaches fifty in 1978, struggling with disillusionment and depression despite a loving wife and thriving photography career. As Chucky travels from the Vatican, where a new pope is to be selected, to Jimmy Carter's White House, where the president seeks to cure the nation's malaise, he searches for a way to renew his weary spirit. With the loving support of his family, especially his irrepressible wife Rosemarie, Chucky strives to rediscover his lost optimism in time for a second spring. The fifth novel in the O'Malley saga, following A Midwinter's Tale, Younger than Springtime, A Christmas Wedding, and September Song, Second Spring continues to delight readers with its blend of family, faith, and history. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.