Kook: What Browsing Taught Me About Love, Life, and Catching the Excellent Wave

With grit, poetry, and humor, Peter Heller, acclaimed creator of The River and The Whale Warriors recounts his exceptional journey of discovery—of browsing, a completely new problem; of the ocean’s magnificence and energy; of the unusual surf subculture; of affection; and, most of all, of the way to search journey whereas crafting a significant life.

Writer of the New York Instances bestselling novel The Canine Stars
Winner of the Nationwide Outside Ebook Award for Literature

Having resolved to grasp a big-hollow wave—that’s, to go from kook (surfese for newbie) to shredder—in a single yr, Heller travels from Southern California down the coast of Mexico within the firm of his girlfriend and the eccentric surfers they meet. Exuberant and fearless, Heller explores the approach and science of browsing the secrets and techniques of its tradition, and the environmental ravages to the gorgeous shoreline he visits.

As Heller plumbs the working of his personal coronary heart and finds pleasure in each love and browsing, he affords readers vivid perception into this fascinating world, with all of its perils and pleasures, its absurdity and surprise. Exhilarating, entertaining, and shifting, Kook is a love story between a person and his surfboard, a person and his girlfriend, a not-so-old man and the ocean.