The KEEPER'S GIFT or ULEY'S JOURNAL

Although fundamentaly an "awakening" story, the narrative is well ahead of its time in that it aspires to show life as it was lived by a very uncommon young man in a lower-middle-class society of America. Such realism was never fasionable in any literature that I've come across. A novel about little known chapters of California history and local stories of the Author’s hometown Sedalia, Missouri, where innocence prevails and nature is the source of life and it symbolizes the obstacles of man’s passage in life and there is the test in which youth must triumph over the impossible.