The third book in Dave Pelzer’s trilogy A Man Named David continues the saga of how childhood abuse impacts his life. After a short sample of the abuse he endured as a child, Pelzer begins this book with his early career in the Air Force. Nothing really comes easy for him and he faces failure and disappointment at every term. Once again, he demonstrates the ability to get back up and try again after running into obstacles. His endurance proves to be the key as he battles his poor education and social skills to achieve his goal – serving on a flight crew. The next challenge was to find true love. Content with his career, romance finds Pelzer even though he tried to avoid it. Scars from his childhood contribute to his inability to trust and not even the birth of his son can hold the relationship together. As Pelzer begins to speak about his childhood, a wedge is driven into his marriage and they eventually split up. Determined to break the cycle of abuse, he develops a wonderful, loving, safe relationship with his son. Love once again finds him as his writing career takes off and the book ends with the promise of “happily ever after.” A quick internet search shows that this was not to be as this marriage also ends in divorce. Maybe true love and happiness is just too much for this man to expect. His mere survival was a miracle and his healthy relationship with his son was quite an accomplishment. Many people who grow up in relatively “normal” families do not find eternal married success, much less a satisfying career. Pelzer shows that fairy tales don’t exist in real life, but he has written a very satisfying story with his life and has impacted the lives of others in a positive way.