Like a Hole in the Water: A Coming of Age Novel

It was on a crisp April afternoon when the underpinnings of young Clint’s life collapsed beneath him. From that day, and throughout his youth, he assumed his best friend’s death was an accident. Now an adult and confronted with clear evidence to the contrary, he begins an agonizing quest for truth. Growing up together in the turbulent 60s, Clint and Sam were an unlikely pair, but history and circumstance forged an inseparable bond between them. After Sam is killed suddenly, Clint is left to find his own way into adulthood—always haunted by his friend’s untimely death. Now struggling to grow his fledgling law practice, Clint recalls his friendship with Sam even as he sets out to unravel the truth about his death.A heartfelt coming of age story, Like a Hole in the Water unfolds amidst the Jim Crow South, the growing sentiment against the war in Vietnam, the Cold War and the race for space. Navigating all this, Clint and Sam push back against the norms and create for themselves a safe place in which to grow toward adulthood.Packed with boyhood nostalgia, gut-wrenching pain and redemptive healing, Like a Hole in the Water addresses timeless themes of acceptance, remembrance and forgiveness Read more