Residence Waters: A Chronicle of Household and a River

“BEAUTIFUL. … Spectacularly vivid. … A lyrical companion to his father’s basic [A River Runs through It], chronicling their household’s historical past and bond with Montana’s Blackfoot River.” —Washington Publish

A New York Occasions “New & Notable” Choice

A “poetic” and “charming” (Publishers Weekly) memoir in regards to the energy of place to form generations, Residence Waters is John N. Maclean’s exceptional memoir of his household’s century-long love affair with Montana’s majestic Blackfoot River, the setting for his father’s basic novella, A River Runs by It. Maclean returns yearly to the easy household cabin that his grandfather constructed by hand, nonetheless searching for the trout of a lifetime. When he hooks it ultimately, a long time of longing promise to be fulfilled, inspiring John, reporter and creator, to lastly write the story he was born to inform. 

A guide that may resonate with everybody who feels deeply rooted to a panorama, Residence Waters is chronicle of a household who claimed a river, from one technology to the subsequent, of how this household got here of age within the twentieth century and later as they scattered throughout the nation, confronted tragedy and success, but have been all the time drawn again to the waters that sure them collectively. Listed here are the true tales behind the beloved characters fictionalized in A River Runs by It, together with the Reverend Maclean, the patriarch who launched the household to fishing; Norman, who balanced a life divided between literature and the tug of the rugged West; and tragic but luminous Paul (performed by Brad Pitt in Robert Redford’s movie adaptation), whose mysterious loss of life has haunted the household and led John to analyze his uncle’s homicide and reveal new particulars in these pages.

A common story about nature, household, and the artwork of fly fishing, Maclean’s memoir fantastically portrays the inextricable methods our private histories are linked to the locations we come from—our residence waters. 

That includes twelve wooden engravings by Wesley W. Bates and a map of the Blackfoot River area.