Gerry is a hyperactive Jewish button importer living in a suburb of Montreal. His father Solly has been "dumped" in an old folk's home, something he refuses to let his son forget. Gerry's daughter Sarah is an adherent to Buddhism. Though he feels fine, the medical establishment tells him there's something wrong with his heart and are talking bypass. In between bouncing from waiting room to waiting room, Gerry decides he needs to finish the extravagant porch he's building which, if worst comes to worst, will be his legacy. Or a place to retire to once doctors have turned his brain to broccoli, or his daughter and father have driven him nuts. Luckily, there's Linda, his long-suffering wife who tries to keep Gerry in line and referee the family slugfests. Eventually, the family discovers healing comes in many forms.

David Sherman has worked as a newspaper and magazine journalist and editor, CBC radio producer, playwright, filmmaker, screenwriter, singer/songwriter and now novelist. He abandoned the newspaper business when layoffs and budget cuts decimated the industry and concentrated on writing for the theatre and writing and performing as a folksinger. His latest play, Lost and Found, produced by Infinitheatre and written with his partner Nancy Lee, is a musical, inspired in part, by The Alcoholic’s Daughter. They wrote the songs and story and performed the play in Montreal, B.C. and the Laurentiens. Sherman is also a gym rat and was an avid squash layer and cyclist before the body said enough and the medicine chest overflowed. He is now working on another novel in between walking in the woods with his Chocolate Lab named Jesse and swimming in the lake behind his house, a century-old former fishing lodge, where he occasionally obsesses over dinner parties.

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