After the son, daughter-in-law, and beloved grandchildren move into the city, Ferdinand is left alone on a vast farm. Well then—what, is it time to drag out a long life, to mourn endlessly? Nothing of the sort. Writer Barbara Constantin, author of wonderful books “How Tom Looked for a Home and What Happened Next” and “About Meli Without Any Melodramas,” transforms the drama of old age and loneliness into sparkling joy—an unbearably funny story about the fact that life is good both at seven and at seventy. All that’s needed is simply to look around!