The Last Marlin: The Story of a Family at Sea

The author of Searching for Bobby Fischer tackles his own childhood in this "remarkably ambitious and satisfying memoir" (The New York Times Book Review).

Fred Waitzkin depicted the joys and trials of parenthood with remarkable perception in Searching for Bobby Fischer, the inspiration for the beloved major motion picture. A New York Times Notable Book, The Last Marlin is another sweeping family saga, the tale of an adolescence spent navigating between two very different parents and the ...