Author | Humorist | Blogger | Speaker
Brad Graber
Brad Graber is an award-winning author who writes contemporary fiction about life, love, and friendship. Insightful and witty, Graber challenges us to look beyond the surface, creating characters that inspire hope and connection.
Friends for a Season
Because Wisdom is Ageless
When Helena, an octogenarian, takes a tumble in her bathroom, she’s certain her life as an independent woman is over. In her youth, she’d been a mother, trailblazing author, famous speaker, and an activist. But now, she’s scared and alone, certain the world has forgotten her. Abandoned by her sons, she hasn’t written a word in years. Faced with moving into a retirement community, Helena struggles to adjust her expectations, even as Julie, Ventana’s activities director, wrangles her into volunteering as a patient advocate for Zak, a college freshman, also alone and struggling, in this intergenerational novel of the friendship that blossoms between two people on opposite ends of life’s journey.
What can strangers from different generations learn from each other? Can they truly become friends? What lessons can they share so that the world feels like a safe place?
Boca by Moonlight
A FUNERAL. THREE FRIENDS. STARTING OVER.
George, a widower, attends a golf buddy’s funeral only to be commandeered into covering all the expenses. Why did the family fail to show for the funeral? Why did the family’s check to the mortuary bounce? And what can George learn from his friend’s life to avoid making the same mistakes? From the award-winning author of The Intersect and After the Fall comes the story of a widower starting over. The choices he must make. The lessons he must learn. And the importance of friendship.
What’s That Growing in My Sour Cream?
Humorous Observations On a Modern Life
A witty and insightful commentary on everyday life, which Brad has shared with readers since the creation of his blog: There, I Said It! Learn why there is a fly always circling the deli. Why you and your spouse keep walking into each other. If the people on Facebook are really your friends. These are among the many topics Brad has covered over the years. You’re bound to recognize your own life in the over seventy humorous essays that comprise What’s That Growing in My Sour Cream?
Comedy that is Seinfeldian “…when Seinfeld is at his best.” — Reedsy Discovery
“You’ll find yourself laughing out loud…while reading this collection of essays.”—Readers’ Favorite
“Gentle and accessible humor.”—Writer’s Digest
After the Fall
“An emotional roller-coaster of a mystery packed with personality and charm.”
Rikki, a teenager being raised by her grandmother in Queens, has a secret. She can’t remember her mother. Whenever she asks Rita a question, the older woman falls apart and refuses to discuss the matter. Desperate to learn the truth, Rikki finds a hidden album with family photographs. Can the boy in the picture with her mother be a long lost uncle? Determined to unlock the mystery, she embarks on a journey to find Harry, a writer who is struggling with his own issues of identity.
From the award-winning writer of The Intersect, comes After the Fall, a fast-paced, engaging read, with twists and turns that will surely surprise. After the Fall: an emotional roller-coaster packed with personality and charm. Once you start the journey, you won’t be able to turn back.
“After the Fall is another riveting novel from Brad Graber. His characters come to life and their story will touch your heart.” —Nina S., San Francisco, CA
Brad’s Award-winning Novel: The Intersect
“The strongest link and most lasting connections are made among strangers.”
Set against Arizona’s political and cultural vortex at the start of 2010, The Intersect explores the issues of the day by weaving together the lives of disparate characters striving to survive in a world where the strongest link, and most lasting connection, is made among strangers.
When Dave and Charlie relocate from the Bay Area to Phoenix, tensions ratchet up in their relationship as Charlie insists on buying a house on the grounds of the Arizona Biltmore as Dave contemplates leaving his job. Daisy, a spry septuagenarian, shows up at their front door after a long convalescence, unaware that her greedy Michigan relatives, Jack and Enid, have already sold her home. Charlie assumes the older woman is Dave’s distant aunt and happily ushers her into a guest room. Meanwhile, across town, Anna, a gifted psychic who channels the dead, is concerned about her neighborhood. She hires a handyman to install motion-detectors, unaware that Ernie has entered the United States illegally from Mexico as a child. When Henry, a homeless gay teen attempts to rob Anna, Ernie intervenes and a melee ensues. The police mistakenly arrest Ernie, leading to his deportation.
And so begins The Intersect as relationships unravel, secrets are revealed, love blossoms and injustice leads to a thrilling climax.
Graber brings to life six degrees of separation like never before. We all relate to the complex relationships—unpredictable, heartwarming, excruciating—couldn’t put it down.” —Lauren T., St. Louis, MO
There, I said It!
Could Your Life Review Make A Great Story?
Have you ever awoken in the middle of the night and wondered about your life? The choices that have led you to the current moment in time. If you haven't, you're lucky. After all, there's little to be gained lying in bed and rehashing the past unless there's something...
Say, I Do!
There's nothing like a family wedding to bring out the need to raid one's closet for appropriate attire. In our house, we're a casual duo. Jeans without sneakers is a dressy night out. So, you can imagine the activity when a wedding invitation arrived that requested...
Is Disappointment Just A Part of Life?
For those of you who've been reading my blog, you know that last month I had surgery on my right ear to remove a tumor that had rendered me totally deaf. I was already deaf in my left as a result of a childhood illness. The doctor had promised a complete recovery—and...