Unwelcome Intrusion

AN UNWELCOME INTRUSION is the story of Lucy Grumbachs life. She struggles to win her father Hermans love and approval. She worries about her abused mother, Gertrude. Her solace is found during the summers she spends on her grandparents farm. There she meets a young neighbor. Jim Hunter eventually rescues her from her father. The Vietnam conflict takes Jim away. Jims father, Zachary, assumes the role of protector to Lucy and her mother. He is so successful that Lucy convinces herself she need never see her father again. But, when Herman reaches deaths doorstep, Gertrude pleads with her daughter to save her fathers life by donating one of her kidneys to him. Lucys emotions are once again thrown into turmoil.