Off Herring Cove Road: The Problem Being Blue
Book Details
Author(s)Michael Kroft
PublisherDMD Publishing
ISBN / ASINB013J8UO82
ISBN-13978B013J8UO84
MarketplaceFrance 🇫🇷
Description
Book 3 of the Herring Cove Road series
June 26, 2016: An additional edit to the fourth edition of Off Herring Cove Road: The Problem Being Blue, which included slight additions to several chapters with an overall increase of almost 5% to the word count, was completed to address the typographical and grammatical issues, and replace the British specific terms, slang and spellings with their American equivalents.
With Blue’s father in prison for selling marijuana and his mother estranged for over the last seven years, Blue is doing well, all considering. As the second addition to the not-so-nuclear Dixon family of Lisa, her ten-year-old son, Dwight, and the retired, Jewish introvert, Av, Blue finds himself living in a much better area of Halifax, Nova Scotia, going to a much better school and for the first time, actually applying himself academically as he struggles to fit in.
All that's soon threatened when Blue’s estranged mother returns to take him away, and around the same time, he’s harassed and threatened by his father’s affiliation with the very dangerous, local biker gang to whom his father owes money.
Blue, his surrogate family, and Dwight's new academically overachieving friend, Lyon, are forced to deal with the quickly escalating problems that threaten both the family unit and its members.
*WARNING* This third novel in the Herring Cove Road series includes violence and coarse language and involves situations of accidental death, murder, and suicide. -NOT RECOMMENDED FOR THOSE UNDER THE AGE OF FOURTEEN-
ABOUT THE SERIES
The third of the four stand-alone novels in the evocative and not-so-nuclear family saga series Herring Cove Road, where a small group of troubled individuals, dealing with their own personal issues, accidentally come together to form a family unit, and then while struggling to maintain it, are forced to deal with its dark results, such as: racism, death, murder, suicide and much more.
Taking place primarily in the 70’s, with believable characters and mostly situated in several areas of Halifax, Nova Scotia, the series chronicles the actions (and their results) of an old and introverted Jewish man, a struggling mother, her naive and lonely son, and a boy streetwise beyond his years.
Volume 1: On Herring Cove Road: Mr. Jew and the Goy Boy
Volume 2: Still on Herring Cove Road: Hickory, Dickory, Death
Volume 3: Off Herring Cove Road: The Problem Being Blue
Volume 4: Before Herring Cove Road: A Love Story **Coming November 2016**
June 26, 2016: An additional edit to the fourth edition of Off Herring Cove Road: The Problem Being Blue, which included slight additions to several chapters with an overall increase of almost 5% to the word count, was completed to address the typographical and grammatical issues, and replace the British specific terms, slang and spellings with their American equivalents.
With Blue’s father in prison for selling marijuana and his mother estranged for over the last seven years, Blue is doing well, all considering. As the second addition to the not-so-nuclear Dixon family of Lisa, her ten-year-old son, Dwight, and the retired, Jewish introvert, Av, Blue finds himself living in a much better area of Halifax, Nova Scotia, going to a much better school and for the first time, actually applying himself academically as he struggles to fit in.
All that's soon threatened when Blue’s estranged mother returns to take him away, and around the same time, he’s harassed and threatened by his father’s affiliation with the very dangerous, local biker gang to whom his father owes money.
Blue, his surrogate family, and Dwight's new academically overachieving friend, Lyon, are forced to deal with the quickly escalating problems that threaten both the family unit and its members.
*WARNING* This third novel in the Herring Cove Road series includes violence and coarse language and involves situations of accidental death, murder, and suicide. -NOT RECOMMENDED FOR THOSE UNDER THE AGE OF FOURTEEN-
ABOUT THE SERIES
The third of the four stand-alone novels in the evocative and not-so-nuclear family saga series Herring Cove Road, where a small group of troubled individuals, dealing with their own personal issues, accidentally come together to form a family unit, and then while struggling to maintain it, are forced to deal with its dark results, such as: racism, death, murder, suicide and much more.
Taking place primarily in the 70’s, with believable characters and mostly situated in several areas of Halifax, Nova Scotia, the series chronicles the actions (and their results) of an old and introverted Jewish man, a struggling mother, her naive and lonely son, and a boy streetwise beyond his years.
Volume 1: On Herring Cove Road: Mr. Jew and the Goy Boy
Volume 2: Still on Herring Cove Road: Hickory, Dickory, Death
Volume 3: Off Herring Cove Road: The Problem Being Blue
Volume 4: Before Herring Cove Road: A Love Story **Coming November 2016**
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