Jewfish

Nathan Prays life is a mess. A rare cold snap in the subtropics has nearly obliterated his beloved snook population as if rising seas urbanization and toxic red tide blooms werent trouble enough. Whats more his domestic life has unraveled. Nathans father suffers through the early stages of Alzheimers disease his wife has left him for a more upstanding (and normal) Jewish husband his adolescent son seems to have retreated into a dubious hip-hop identity and his mother has her own problems. Hes a good man who just cant catch a break. But Nathans luck just might be about to change. A lucrative sponsorship and a television role on a popular fishing program can be his for the taking if he will only compromise on some of his stubborn piscatorial principles. Inspired in equal parts by Ernest Hemingway Bernard Malamud and Saul Bellow Jewfish chronicles the day-to-day life of a middle-aged fisherman lovable in spite of his shortcomings and shines a light on the environmental issues facing south Florida and the planet.