Looking Through Water (Revised Edition)
A Novel
Published on 24. September 2024
256 pages
978-1-63763-254-3 (ISBN)
Description
A father and son, long-estranged, fight to win a fishing competition together?and lose the pain that's kept them apart.
It's 1976, and William McKay is at the top of his game. He's taken over the family brokerage firm. He has a stunning and accomplished fiancée. The NYC Chamber of Commerce has named him the Under 40 Executive of the Year. And yet . . . William knows something is missing.
Then he receives a phone call from his father, who disappeared eleven years earlier while William's mother was dying from Alzheimer's. Leo's living in the Florida Keys now, and he wants William to join him in a father-son fishing competition. Stunned by this father's audacity, suspicious of his motives, but even more desperate to leave New York, William agrees and heads south in his private jet.
The basis for the forthcoming film, Looking Through Water chronicles the indelible impact that long-festering pain can have on a family, and the healing that comes with forgiveness?once we learn when to reel in a big catch and when to let it all go.
It's 1976, and William McKay is at the top of his game. He's taken over the family brokerage firm. He has a stunning and accomplished fiancée. The NYC Chamber of Commerce has named him the Under 40 Executive of the Year. And yet . . . William knows something is missing.
Then he receives a phone call from his father, who disappeared eleven years earlier while William's mother was dying from Alzheimer's. Leo's living in the Florida Keys now, and he wants William to join him in a father-son fishing competition. Stunned by this father's audacity, suspicious of his motives, but even more desperate to leave New York, William agrees and heads south in his private jet.
The basis for the forthcoming film, Looking Through Water chronicles the indelible impact that long-festering pain can have on a family, and the healing that comes with forgiveness?once we learn when to reel in a big catch and when to let it all go.
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Bob Rich first learned the art of storytelling around campfires at summer camps in northern Ontario, Canada. Growing up, reading Hemingway inspired him to write. Living on the shores of Lake Erie and the Florida Keys provide him with an abundance of his own tales to tell. He is the author of four books: Catching Big Fish, The Right Angle, Why We Fish, and Looking Through Water, the latter having been made into a film. He is the coauthor of Secrets from the Delphi Café.
