Book Review: The Ombudsman by Joel B. Geffen
Release Date: June 20, 2016 Publisher: SAGE press Format: Paperback Pages: 256 pages Genre: Fiction Buy: Paperback | Kindle Synopsis: Seventy-four year old Al Pregurson had a great career as a newspaper journalist and a forty-eight-year love affair with his wife. Now that he is retired and his wife dead, where does he fit in with a fast-paced, ageist society? Al's optimism and self-confidence had always been his strengths, but what lies ahead on his quest to find his place in the world will shake him to his core and challenge the self-image he always believed was indestructible. What unforeseen events could make such a man question his worth and decimate his self-esteem so deeply as to make him feel irrelevant? Review: This book is a great reminder that we are all getting older and that just because we are older doesn't mean we are irrelevant. With a tender yet direct tone Geffen shares with us the scary side of aging. How the elderly are often take