The War for GloriaCorey Goltz grows up in working class Boston as the only child of Gloria, whose intellectual ambitions were derailed early. Corey, restless, dreams of a great adventure. Instead, when he is fifteen, Gloria is diagnosed with ALS and, too late, his estranged father, Leonarda man of great charisma and deep resentmentsreenters the picture. Determined to be his mother's hero at any cost, Corey begins shouldering responsibility for her expensive medical