My Newest Project
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Fifteen-year-old Malcolm drops out of college and heads to the mall, where he enjoys unloading a truck and unpacking boxes. On his sixteenth birthday, however, his grandfather sends him off on an errand: to learn more about his folk singing Vietnam veteran father, a man who went missing fifteen years earlier.
The year is 1990 and Malcolm is a modern-day Telemachus, but unlike Homer’s young hero, Malcolm’s quest to save his family from a pack of “suitors” takes him across America to find not one, but two storied parents. Travelling to New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Utah and Puget Sound with his mischievous buddy, Herman, Malcolm drives a van without a license, grapples with his OCD, hears amazing stories, reclaims a few of his own, and learns how to cope with some rather eccentric parents.
Praise for my first novel, The Peculiar Grace of a Shaker Chair
Ruderman's novel gives readers a peek at the day-to-day conflicts teachers and their school administrators face. His sharp and witty prose and use of magical realism makes the novel a very entertaining read. -DIgital Journal
