Before the Wind: A novel

Before the Wind: A novel

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 Keseyâ€™s 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, Joshâ€”who repairs boats of all kinds in a Steinbeckian marina south of Seattleâ€”is 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 himselfâ€”despite an endless and comic flurry of online datesâ€”hasnâ€™t even come close to finding a girlfriend.Â

But when the Johannssens unexpectedly reunite for the most important race in these watersâ€”all of them together on a classic vessel they made decades agoâ€”they will be carried to destinies both individual and collective, and to a heart-shattering revelation. Past and present merge seamlessly and collide surprisingly as Jim Lynch reveals a family unlike any other, with the grace and humor and magic of a master storyteller.
Country USA
Brand Knopf
Manufacturer Knopf
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9780307958983
ReleaseDate 2016-04-19
UnitCount 1
Format Deckle Edge
EANs 9780307958983

Country	USA
Brand	Knopf
Manufacturer	Knopf
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9780307958983
ReleaseDate	2016-04-19
UnitCount	1
Format	Deckle Edge
EANs	9780307958983

Before the Wind: A novel

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