The Boy Walker

<p><b>Brute Greenbaum faces challenges beyond those of ordinary 12-year-olds.</b> Faded hearing. Dimming eyesight. Bad hips. A penchant for farting. They're normal for an English Bulldog equivalent to a human centenarian and pursued by the <i>Malach HaMavet</i>-the Angel of Death. But they're only the beginning.</p> <p>A cantankerous lover of literature rabinnic wisdom humor and skateboarding Brute must hold together the remnants of his shattered San Francisco family. Abbie Greenbaum a 24-year-old dog walker remains estranged from his college-professor father Morty more than a decade after the deaths of Abbie’s sister and mother. Yet he and Morty still live in the same house.</p> <p>Enter Sarah-a 10-year-old with Down syndrome-and Rivka her divorced Jewish-Chinese mother who teaches stand-up comedy and can't shake her ex a classically trained cellist into bondage.</p> <p>The three Greenbaums encounter a series of trials posed by mortality jealousy and long-buried secrets which represent nothing-and <i>everything</i>-to laugh about.</p>