Diver

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A thoughtful and moving but artfully unsentimental depiction of a son's love. </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Kirkus Reviews</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>From the author of </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>a moving new novel </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Diver </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>the story of an abiding love between a father and son.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>On the morning that his father Navy deep-sea diver Mac Macoby dies of a heart attack 12-year-old Robert is engulfed by the memories that tie them together. The memories come in fragments some broken some incomplete but together they form the portrait of a man shaped by the tides of history not a hero's life but a heroic one nonetheless. </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Diver</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is about one California family in the 1960s and about every family a novel about the rigors of military life amid the turbulence of the counterculture movement a novel of how memory can fail us serve us and support us through loss. </span></p>