Brook Trout and the Writing Life
By Craig Nova
ENO Publishers
The celebrated novelist Craig Nova understands that a striking association between two unlike things is often the most gripping. Because of their differences, when a bright thread is sewn between them, the revelation opens an epiphany in the beholder.
Nova weaves the connection between his life and those of the brook trout swimming in the tributaries of the is a short memoir that tumbles through Nova’s early marriage, fatherhood and writing. Living on a writer’s salary in the woods near miles of small streams, he honestly and vulnerably wrestles with commitments to his family and art while simultaneously being tempted and renewed by the brook trout “finning in the dark water where they waited, perfectly shaped to exist in the current.”
