The infinite plan - Isabel Allende

As a boy, Gregory Reeves accepts the endless journeying and poverty which is his family’s lot, never questioning the validity of his preacher father’s philosophy of life – the Infinite Plan. But as manhood approaches, Gregory finds himself increasingly possessed by a yearning to escape. Hankering after worldly wealth, he longs to break away from the narrow, home-loving principles he learnt in Los Angeles, where his family has finally settled. Gregory’s quest, so different from his father’s, takes him first to the killing fields of Vietnam, and thence to law school from where he pitches headlong into a hedonistic pursuit of the American Dream…