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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. Rice does a marvelous job of exploring how important the youthful search for belonging, meaning, and purpose are as he guides us through every possible emotion that makes life at eighteen intense and exciting.”
—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.
“I can’t recall a work of fiction ever taking me back so directly to a time and place in my past, but this book did just that. Also baked into this experience was the healing effect of being out in the wilderness. The capture of the adolescent emotions, plus the trials and triumphs of getting through your late teens, should ring true with most everyone.”
—Scot Bealer, author of Most Trout Don't Read and Wildlife Through the Lens
