Off Herring Cove Road: The Problem Being Blue

Literature & Fiction

Kroft, Michael

Genre Fiction

H & S Publishing

Before Herring Cove Road: Ruth Goldman and the Nincompoop

World Literature

Book 3 of 4 of the Herring Cove Road series 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 recent overachieving classmate/friend, Lyon, are forced to deal with the quickly escalating problems that threaten both the family unit and its members. 
ABOUT THE SERIES
Taking place in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the series follows the sometimes amusing, sometimes heartbreaking and sometimes terrifying events that follow an introverted old Jewish man's retirement as he reluctantly befriends a young and struggling single mother, her naive and lonely son, and lastly, a boy streetwise beyond his years.
"I don't usually enjoy books in a series but this was an exception. It was uplifting, and interesting with some twists I didn't see coming...It wasn't all sweet and goody two shoes either. It had some dark and realistic moments and characters. Very well written." -(Amazon Customer) 
Volume 1) On Herring Cove Road: Mr. Rosen and His 43Lb Anxiety 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: Ruth Goldman and the Nincompoop

Michael Kroft

A cozy and touching tale of adventure, love and survival in Colonial America... when before the Wild West there was the Eerie East.\nBy now, Becky expected to be married and starting a family in Boston, but she isn’t. With her fiancé dead, she's now a house servant nursing the ill wife of a Virginia tobacco plantation’s narcissistic and paranoid overseer, Charles Philpot, who now desires her. Having had enough of slavery and anyone having anything to do with it, she plans to leave for Boston to begin a new life alone.\nOnly ever seeing a slave in passing, William escapes his work in the mine by taking an indentured contract as an assistant overseer of a tobacco plantation's slaves. It's an unusual contract but one he feels suited for, ensuring the slaves are safe, healthy and happy as the London agent had very much understated it. After a trying time coming to Virginia, he finds himself torn between his new tasks and his conscience while adjusting to his new environment and watching over his twelve-year-old brother, Oscar, who stowed away on the ship and is now indentured to the same plantation.\nDue to his poor reputation built mostly on rumors, few from Williamsburg to Jamestown want to work for Charles Philpot, and of those who do, he wouldn’t want them to, preferring to request an indentured servant every seven years. Unlike the rumors, his reputation for getting what he wants without a care for whose feet he steps on, or worse, has been proven, and it's going to be proven again when he carries out his revenge on the tobacco plantation, its slaves, the growing bond between Becky and William, and the bond between Oscar and his pig.\nABOUT THE SERIES\nFollowing ten generations from the early eighteenth century to the early twentieth century, each stand-alone novel introduces old and new characters while mixing humor, romance and pathos to tell a story of life and love in America.\nVolume 1) Indentured Bonds: The First Generation, Circa 1715\nVolume 2) Family Bonds: The Second Generation, Circa 1735 (Coming June 2023)\nOTHER BOOKS BY THE AUTHOR\nThe Four-Volume Family Saga Series, Herring Cove Road\nTaking place in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the series follows the amusing, heartwarming, eartbreaking and sometimes terrifying events that follow an introverted old Jewish man’s retirement as he reluctantly befriends a naive and lonely boy, his struggling single mother, and lastly, a boy streetwise beyond his years.\nVolume 1) On Herring Cove Road: Mr. Rosen and His 43Lb Anxiety\nVolume 2) Still on Herring Cove Road: Hickory, Dickory, Death\nVolume 3) Off Herring Cove Road: The Problem Being Blue\nVolume 4) Before Herring Cove Road: Ruth Goldman and the Nincompoop

Indentured Bonds: The First Generation, Circa 1715 (The Lovelys' Family Tree)

United States

A touching novel about a troubled old man, his doting but ill wife, and the mutual salvation that follows his friendship with the son of his racist neighbor. Enjoyed by fans of A Man Called Ove.\nOnce 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. And since becoming a practicing introvert, there have been only a few changes in his life and his wife had walked him through those, 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.\nMr. 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 he refuses to think about it, but he's not aware of the change that will come from the child next door. A change that could offer him a second chance at life... if he would allow himself to take it.\nThis cozy story of an unlikely friendship offers a roller coaster of emotion as Mr. Rosen's comfortable world begins to implode while on a collision course with the chaotic world of a boy, his troubled mother and vengeful father.\nThis Second Edition includes the addition of several sections deleted before the novel's initial publication, includes Author's Notes, uses American English and addresses the remaining few typographical and grammatical errors.\nABOUT THE SERIES 
Taking place in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the series follows the amusing, heartwarming, heartbreaking and sometimes tragic events that follow an introverted old Jewish man’s retirement as he reluctantly befriends a naive and lonely boy, his struggling single mother, and lastly, a boy streetwise beyond his years.\n"I don't usually enjoy books in a series but this was an exception. It was uplifting, and interesting with some twists I didn't see coming...It wasn't all sweet and goody two shoes either. It had some dark and realistic moments and characters. Very well written." -(Amazon Customer) 
Volume 1) On Herring Cove Road: Mr. Rosen and His 43Lb Anxiety 
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: Ruth Goldman and the Nincompoop

On Herring Cove Road: Mr. Rosen and His 43Lb Anxiety

Humor & Satire

Still on Herring Cove Road: Hickory, Dickory, Death

Hardcover with Dustjacket\nA touching tale of a troubled old man, his doting but ill wife, and the mutual salvation that follows his friendship with the son of his racist neighbor.\nOnce 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 take the navigator's seat of his life to guide him through its changes, 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.\nMr. 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 he refuses to think about it, but he's not aware of the change that will come from the child next door. A change that could offer him a second chance at life... if he would allow himself to take it.\nThis cozy story of an unlikely friendship offers a roller coaster of emotion as Mr. Rosen's comfortable world begins to implode while on a collision course with the chaotic world of a boy, his troubled mother and vengeful father.\nNote: this Second Edition includes the addition of several small sections deleted before the novel's initial publication, includes Author's Notes, uses American English and addresses any typographical and grammatical errors.

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Off Herring Cove Road: The Problem Being Blue

Before Herring Cove Road: Ruth Goldman and the Nincompoop

Off Herring Cove Road: The Problem Being Blue

Indentured Bonds: The First Generation, Circa 1715 (The Lovelys' Family Tree)

On Herring Cove Road: Mr. Rosen and His 43Lb Anxiety

Still on Herring Cove Road: Hickory, Dickory, Death

Off Herring Cove Road: The Problem Being Blue

Before Herring Cove Road: Ruth Goldman and the Nincompoop

On Herring Cove Road: Mr. Rosen and His 43Lb Anxiety