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Following The Highest Tide, Border Songs, and Truth Like the Sun , Jim Lynch now gives us a grand and idiosyncratic family saga that will stand alongside Ken Keseys Sometimes a Great Notion . Joshua Johannssen has spent all of his life surrounded by sailboats. His grandfather designed them, his father built and raced them, his Einstein-obsessed mother knows why and how they work (or not). For Josh and his two siblings, their backyard was the Puget Sound and sailing their DNA. But both his sister and brother fled many years ago: Ruby to Africa and elsewhere to do good works on land, and Bernard to god-knows-where at sea, a fugitive and pirate. Suddenly thirty-one, Joshwho repairs boats of all kinds in a Steinbeckian marina south of Seattleis pained and confused by whatever the hell went wrong with his volatile family. His parents are barely speaking, his mystified grandfather is drinking harder, and he himselfdespite an endless and comic flurry of online dateshasnt even come close to finding a girlfriend. But when the Johannssens unexpectedly reunite for the most important race in these watersall of them together on a classic vessel they made decades agothey will be carried to des

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Author

Lynch, Jim, 1961-

Publisher

New York: Alfred A. Knopf

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307949356

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.93 / 5 (488 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14