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U plifting and unforgettable, ROOMMATES is a true story about the extraordinary connection between grandfather and grandson. At its center a is writer Max Apple, growing up, learning from and finally leaning on irasci- ble, scrappy five-foot-tall Herman "Rocky" Goodstein.
Part of a boisterous, bantering extended Michigan family, Max first moves into cantankerous Rocky's room at age 7; later, Rocky, at 93, becomes Max's unconventional roommate at grad- uate school during the 1960s. Opinionated, determined, and sometimes fierce, Rocky shakes up Max's friends and nearly wrecks Max's chances for romance. But he is also a man whose credo, "be strong," becomes the foundation of his grandson's life. And when tragedy strikes Max, his wife, and their two small children, it will be Rocky, at age 103, who takes over and shows them how to face life and death, and finally how to heal...
ISBN:070993005993
