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This is the newest novel from lead guide of Riverfeet Fly Fishing, founder of Riverfeet Press, author of The Unpeopled Season: a Journal of Solitude and Wilderness and This Side of a Wilderness: A Novel, plus editor of the Awake in the World anthology series.
“Imagine Holden Caulfield and Norman MacLean meeting up with one of James Lee Burke’s characters, and you will know what to expect when you open this novel."
—Russell Rowland, author of Fifty-Six Counties: A Montana Journey
Many people never cure themselves from what happened in their youth, and others never make it out alive. This is a riveting story of one who did. Barely.
In the late 1900s, the final graduating class of the twentieth century, a sprawling city of street gangs and clashing cultures is juxtaposed against the sharp mountain peaks in the distance where a disappearing way of life is hanging by a thread. Eddie Young, a senior in high school, is at the breaking point, trapped between these two opposing forces: the city with his friends, a reputation and the girl, or the mountains with his memories, peace and a river.
Rooted in the times of 1999; the high school parking lots and basement parties, the skyscrapers and pocket pagers, mountain trails and streams still pristine, at the end of a century and millennium, this is a chronicle of human experiences that transcends time and place.
“Rice’s newest novel follows the transformation of an unscrupulous antihero through turmoil and challenge as he reclaims his life and earns our admiration, all with the aid of a fly rod and the wilderness. I couldn’t put it down.”
— George Noleff, Producer of the Outdoors Bound TV show
“Perhaps the best part of this book was giving me a chance to relive some of my own feelings and challenges so vividly, then being able to reflect on where my life has taken me in the decades that followed. Well worth the read.”
— Scot Bealer, author of Wildlife Through the Lens
“Showcasing the violence and tenderness of youth, this book teaches us how far we can wander before the wild finally calls us to home.”
— Tyler Dunning, author of A Field Guide to Losing Your Friends
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