Joshua Johannssen has spent all of his life surrounded by sailboats. His grandfather designed them, his father built and raced them, his Einstein-obsessed mother knows why and how they work (or not) . For Josh and his two siblings, their backyard was the Puget Sound and sailing their DNA. But both his sister and brother fled many years ago: Ruby to Africa and elsewhere to do good works on land, and Bernard to God-knows-where at sea, a fugitive and pirate. Suddenly thirty-one, Josh - who repairs boats of all kinds in a Steinbeckian marina south of Seattle - is pained and confused by whatever the hell went wrong with his volatile family. His parents are barely speaking, his mystified grandfather is drinking harder, and he himself - despite an endless and comic flurry of online dates - hasn't even come close to finding a girlfriend. <br><br> But when the Johannssens unexpectedly reunite for the most important race in these waters - all of them together on a classic vessel they made decades ago - they will be carried to destinies both individual and collective, and to a heart-shattering revelation.
