pstrongA touching and unassuming novel about a troubled old Jewish man totally dependent on his doting but ill wife, and the mutual salvation that comes from his reluctant friendship with the son of his racist neighbor. I laughed, I cried - I loved it! Sally Thompson, New YorkstrongppOnce 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 gently take the navigator's seat of his life. Since becoming a practicing introvert, there have been few changes in his life, which his wife had walked him through, including their recent move to a much smaller home in a middle-class neighborhood where he lives next to a racist whose pint-sized son addresses him as Mr. Jew.ppMr. Rosen had seen the move coming and he's very much aware of the enormous change to come that will force him to chart his own life's route, though h