The Golden Level

Riding the Waves of Hawaiʻi, California and Memory

Tim works alone in the basement of a Hawaiʻi university library, combing eighties-era hard drives for a lost manuscript by the late Calvin Fritz, the poet laureate of California stoner fiction. It's an impossible project, but a place where Tim can lose himself in other people's memories, since he can't seem to remember his own.

With his surfer-therapist Lance, Tim rides the waves of present and past. The author's widow Noelle is ready to mov...