Passport : A Novel

Passport is an engaging coming-of-age story about a young Catholic man?fs discovery of self-sacrificial love. It is told through the eyes of Stan, who is living a generally upright ?Y but comfortable and self-satisfied ?Y bachelor?fs life with his dog and hobby cars. When a lapse in judgment brings consequences he hadn?ft anticipated, Stan must make a series of agonizing decisions about how to move forward. He struggles to rearrange his life, and finds himself increasingly attuned to the needs of others. As Stan grows more faithful to his commitments, and more committed to his faith, he discovers a depth of joy and happiness far beyond what he might have expected.Like his friends, and like many other young people, Stan imagines that marriage means finding the person who will serve as his passport to ?gheaven-on-earth.?h As the story progresses, however, he becomes thoroughly disabused of this notion. Stan finishes the novel in a very different place than where he started, with marriage and family life having served as a very different sort of passport than he or we could have anticipated.