Book 1 ,of 4 ,of the Herring Cove Road ,(Not-So-Nuclear Family Saga) ,series.A socially awkward and extremely introverted old Jewish man, his doting but sickly wife, the lonely child of his racist next-door neighbor, and their unlikely and ",accidental", friendship that develops over the summer of 1976.",And when I was your age, there was no color in the world. That',s why all the old pictures are in black and white,", explained the deadpan-faced old man. Once an amusing extrovert with a reputation as a prankster, Mr. Rosen is entering his senior years as a stoic, thirty-year converted introvert who hates change, has little to no interest in people and is more than content to have his wife sit in the navigator',s seat of his life. Since becoming a practicing introvert, there have been almost no changes in his life, and for the few that there were, his wife had walked him through them, including the recent move to a much smaller home in a lower/middle-class neighbourhood where he lives directly next door to a racist whose pint-sized nine-year-old son addresses him as Mr. Jew.Mr. Rosen had seen the move coming, and he is very much aware of the enormous change to come sometime in the, hopefully, far-off future, though, he refuses to give it any attention. That change will come on slowly and painfully and will eventually force him to chart his own life',s route. This heartwarming, feel-good novel offers a rollercoaster ride of emotion as Mr. Rosen',s habitual world begins to implode while on a collision course with the chaotic world of an innocent and pint-sized nine-year-old boy, his troubled mother and vengeful father. ABOUT THE SERIES The first of the four novels in the unique, evocative and not-so-nuclear family saga series called Herring Cove Road, where a small group of
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