Fond Hope |
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| Author:
| Carrithers, Jon |
| ISBN: | 978-1-7968-4749-9 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2019 |
| Publisher: | Independently Published
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $14.50 |
Book Description:
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Following a family tragedy in early 1967, three teenage boys are sent by their mother, from New Jersey, to live under the care of their uncle in a small west coast marina. Their uncle, who lives in a van, provides a boat for the boys to live on named the Fond HopeThe marina didn't seem to be a fit place to raise adolescent young men. It was full of folks living on the edge, hiding away, and often into drugs, reefer, and alcohol. While their uncle is preoccupied with romancing women...
More DescriptionFollowing a family tragedy in early 1967, three teenage boys are sent by their mother, from New Jersey, to live under the care of their uncle in a small west coast marina. Their uncle, who lives in a van, provides a boat for the boys to live on named the Fond HopeThe marina didn't seem to be a fit place to raise adolescent young men. It was full of folks living on the edge, hiding away, and often into drugs, reefer, and alcohol. While their uncle is preoccupied with romancing women fifteen years younger than himself, Bud Jenkins, a disabled Vietnam Veteran; Jerry the Wino, the inscrutable Will Ringer, Harbormaster Rob Romero and his girlfriend Sue and her friends, take the boys under their care and marginal supervision. During that summer, the boys' bond with some most unusual and interesting characters. Their relationship with their uncle eventually sours, and they ally with one of his former girlfriends', becoming the catalyst for lots fun, hijinks, and mischief at the marina. The story opens with one of the young men adrift in the Pacific Ocean late at night in the fall of 1976. The subsequent chapters recount the six months prior to this accident, until at the end, his fate becomes known. During that summer, the boys learn to sail, work to have fun, and made friends of many different people; and the beautiful natural world nearby and creatures in it. They learn to judge people by the content of their character, not outward appearance, and are forever changed by their experience on the Fond Hope and the tragedy that unfolds.