Trash Fish

Trash Fish is the story of a boy who gives himself over to his obsession with fish as an escape from the trials of growing up. Time and again as his life unfolds to reveal his failings and foibles to those around him he returns to the fish which cast him a lifeline of their own. Laughoutloud funny yet sardonically raw to the bone Keeler tells a whole whirlpool of a storythe women the Peace Corps the teaching jobs the marriage and children and of course the rod and reel. Eventually however his serene fishing life becomes contaminated with realworld influences: a polite society of angling purists insists that he choose between flies and bait while his alter ego (and nemesis) begins to use fishing as an excuse to cheat on his wife. Ultimately Keeler''s fisherman must acknowledge that he can''t escape down the river bend and that in order to experience true love he must accept the complexities within himself and within the people on land around him.