Product Description: Lewis Chopik has just graduated from Columbia University. Having been dumped by his girlfriend and in flight from the pressures exerted by his ambitious professor father, Lewis returns to Wichita in search of respite at the home of his New-Ager mother, Abby...read more

In a lyrical, coming-of-age memoir, a poet describes the role that surfing has played in his life, explaining how he escaped a turbulent childhood of divorce, his mother's remarriage, and an explosive new stepfather through his struggle to master the waves, until a double tragedy once again uproots his life. Reprint.