The Brewster Avenue Dead Man's Club

ISBN-13: 9781482544701 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 308 str.

T. Scott McLeod

Opis

What's Important? You're an old man and your days are numbered, so how do you live them? What's important? He's a young man, drunk, unlucky in love and heartbroken, breaking windows on Main Street when the limousine pulls to a stop and an old man gets out. "What are you doing?" The old man asks, and so begins the unexpected friendship between this young man, Boomer, and a group of old guys who live in a house together on Brewster Avenue. A big beautiful house. "We're like a fraternity, or a brotherhood, or a club," Kenneth, one of the old men, explains. "Each of us have been left behind by the one we loved, we've all been widowed, and now we live together for friendship and to look out for each other. We're The Brewster Avenue Dead Man's Club," Kenneth says with a laugh, "because at any moment, any of us could be dead." No longer wanting to live with his girlfriend who cheated on him, and not having anywhere else to go, Boomer accepts the offer from the old men to stay in their basement until he gets a place of his own. What Boomer doesn't know is that he's beginning one of the most transformative journeys of his life, that while living with these old men, they will mentor him and teach him all of the great wisdom they have garnered through the years, showing Boomer what it means to be a decent human being, how to live one's life with integrity, how to overcome difficulties, and how to enjoy and savor the precious time that you have while you're here - showing him the answer to the greatest question that any of us could ever ask: What's important?