Winners and Losers

Lily knows what she wants. She wants to know the meaning of the postcards her absent father sends her cryptic words and images that reveal nothing of his life or feelings. Once she makes up her fourteen-year-old mind, she doesn t hesitate to leave her grandmother and travel cross-country to intrude on Herman, the reclusive great-uncle she barely knows, who might hold some clues. Isn t that what family is for?In Winners and Losers, a teenage runaway and a gruff old man come to realize, each in their way, that knowledge need not mean having all the answers, while they attempt to fathom the connection between obligation and love.