Gifts of the Shovel

The Gifts of the Shovel is a self-improvement program, business advisory, morality play, and how-to-fully-live-life course all wrapped into an engaging and inspiring novel. The main character is Jason Clark, a man who while becoming wealthy in business has managed to plummet into emotional bankruptcy in the most important aspects of life. Through repeated trials and errors, Jason learns what it truly means to be RICH with the help of friends, an AA group, and a mystical old mentor who reappears at the oddest, but most important times. RICH, in this case, means living the qualities of respect, integrity, compassion and humility. This book is for anyone who aspires to live life to its fullest.

This book contains multiple surprises as the lives of the characters take sudden twists and turns that the reader doesn't predict.This is the age old story of "he that loses his life shall find it" as Jason Clark the main character comes to the realization that it is not material possessions that makes a man rich. This is the classic story of a fall from grace and the redemptive steps that ensue for the fallen one.