Praise for NORMAL VISION?

Normal Vision? is the fourth book in the Normal? series. These books fall into the humanist style. I believe most humanist authors seek to elucidate the societal and personal injustices of their times. While the Normal? series mentions many contemporary societal and personal injustices the various characters have faced, or are currently facing, the focus is much more on the universal solution to, just about, all injustices—that being love. In each of the individual books of the Normal? series, Stephen Mulrooney’s stories not only bring the reader through some of the most basic and universal struggles of individual, familial, and societal life, his characters transport the reader to the answers and solutions to each of these struggles in their expressions of awareness, wisdom, open-mindedness, acceptance, mutual support, community, caring, charity, relationship, and love. Once again, in Normal Vision? Stephen Mulrooney introduces the reader to new characters with their own individual and yet universal struggles. And just as in the past, with each new character, with their own individual “flaw”, Stephen Mulrooney shows us the “flaw” is but a shadow cast upon the character by others, or society in general. As Victor Hugo stated in Les Misérables, “The guilty one is not the person who has committed the sin, but the person who has created the shadow.” Just as in all the past books of the Normal? series, here in Normal Vision? Stephen Mulrooney reminds us of our own missed opportunities to see or do better, or more in our own lives. And then he provides for us new perspectives, new solutions to complex struggles and problems, and most importantly, new paradigms for us to consider and adopt, just as easy as every new member of the extended Poole-Hall family.

Jerome Van Wert, Publisher, Busterfly LLC