Corey Goltz is fifteen years old when his mother, Gloria, is diagnosed with ALS. Estranged from his father, and increasingly responsible for meeting both his mother’s needs and his own, Corey is determined to be the hero Gloria needs—at any cost. But when his father Leonard re-enters the picture, Corey’s beliefs—about honor and love, duty and devotion, and the uses and misuses of power—are sorely tested.The closer Corey gets to understanding his father’s role in their family, the closer he comes to unmasking a violence that is beyond even his worst imaginings. The War For Gloria tells the story of a young man straddling childhood and adulthood, whose yearning to protect his mother requires him to dismantle the myth of—and possibly destroy—his father.