"The Brainwashed Wife Leonard Price makes good, but winds up relinquishing everything he worked so hard to achieve: His business, his friends, his family and most of all the children he loves When life gets a little difficult in Lenny's business and when he needs his family the most: they abandon him. His wife Sarah and Lenny's two children are "Brainwashed" by his mother-in-law and Sarah's two jealous step brothers. Edith, Sarah's mother tells her daughter after a two year marriage engagement to Lenny that: "Rich Girls Don't Marry Poor Boys " Here is a person you love to hate Lenny is the kind of person you can empathize with. He always wants to do the right thing, but he has only one person to turn to: Maurice. In spite of all his difficulties Lenny has a Positive Attitude because he says "That's all you have " He is the consummate believer. Fortunately, Lenny does not despair even after his divorce and relationship of 16 years with Sarah ends and he gives up his legal right to be the father of his two children unceremoniously. Lenny always believes it is better to have loved and lost than not to have loved at all. He is the ultimate optimist through-out his ordeal. The author, Lawrence Pianin describes how Lenny's betrayal and devious deception by his wife Sarah and her family reinvigorated him to become a stronger person. This deception promulgated Lenny's new lust for life that would lead him on a new adventure that awakened his new passion and desire for women and his ardent enthusiasm for business. Written with skill and humor, "The Brainwashed Wife" is an uncompromisingly frank novel that captures all the excitement of a clever young man trying to make his way through life. In spite of a lost love and a demoralizing experience Lenny learns to overcome through the power of internal faith and the help of his new love
