Trash Fish A Life

"For a boy, an obsession with fish can be a handy way to escape the trials of growing up. That's especially true for Greg Keeler, whose failings and foibles persist in marking the difference between himself and those around him-his academic parents, his genius brother, his motley friends. Time and again, he returns to the fish, who cast him a lifeline of their own." "A fantastically satirical memoir, Trash Fish tells a great whirlpool of a story-the girls and then the women, the Peace Corps, the teaching jobs, the marriage and children, and, of course, the rod and reel, the lure and the catch. Trash Fish reveals not just the life of the author but also many truths about passion, relationships, and the flaws of human nature. As he moves from boyhood into his adult years, Greg Keeler's ichthyophile finds himself having to 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."--BOOK JACKET.

A noted poet, playwright, musician, songwriter, artist, and fisherman, Greg Keeler is a professor of English at Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana, where he lives with his wife.