The Good Guy List
by Russ Vanderboom
The Good Guy List is a simple loving gift bestowed upon twin
brothers to help them embrace a world bent upon keeping them from those
they love most.
The Good Guy List is key to the brothers'
survival in the quest for justice, peace and redemption as they come of
age during the challenging '60s. David and Patrick Joyce want nothing
more than to live together as family. With their mother deep in
depression after the untimely death of their father, not even the kind
and loving intercession by their village of aunts, uncles, neighbors,
and friends from their church can keep both twins at home on the farm.
While David remains in North Freedom dairying and building a hugely
successful business in Holstein genetics, Patrick becomes an exile from
his Wisconsin home, living first with relatives along the shores of Lake
Michigan in Indiana, and then following opportunities to play football
for the University of Colorado Buffaloes and later studying in Europe.
The brothers cross paths as they come of age and travel the world, each
finding love, and both learning the bitter emptiness of loss. Justice
and salvation eludes them, however, until they embrace a redeeming gift
shared among their greater family, a simple prayer called
The Good Guy List.
BIOGRAPHY
Russ Vanderboom is native to Wisconsin. He was a Marine in
1970. After serving with the military, he pursued a career in
agricultural journalism in Wisconsin before returning to the University
of Wisconsin, Madison, to earn a master’s degree in dairy science and a
doctorate in endocrinology and reproductive physiology.
Molecular aspects of endocrinology swept him away; his passion for
estrogen-regulated mammary gland development in mammals evolved into a
keen, driving interest in the pathology of breast cancer in humans.
Medical science became the focus of his second career. He combined his
interests in science and journalism as the medical science writer for
research at the Cleveland Clinic, and then as the senior science writer
at the American Association for Cancer Research in Philadelphia.
He currently supports clinical research and studies telomeres in the
Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, Rochester, Minnesota. He is married and has
two children. The Good Guy List is his first novel.
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