The Big Gorge: Fragile Families, Precious Memories, and a Concerned Father's Prayers for Our Future, (Paperback)

Geanoulis routinely wins spelling bees but hangs with the wrong crowd and comes close to being a high school dropout. He smokes cigarettes in the high school gym like Charlie Brown, but later wins achievement awards while serving in the United States Air Force.

He glorifies the memory of his father with whom he had an intense love affair, while bemoaning the negative impact of his otherwise caring yet antagonistic mother. Boyhood memories trigger bucolic images of Tom Sawyer.

He loses his precious father early on because of divorce, then loses most of his own children through an unwanted divorce of his own thirty years later. Now this self-described windmill jouster, along with a few like-minded associates, are bent on repairing what author David Blankenhorn refers to as America