Anglers Journal

The Armchair Angler

The River You Touch

By Chris Dombrowski

Milkweed Editions

A generational voice of 21st-century fly-fishing, Chris Dombrowski delivers a stunningly rendered memoir about the life of a guide, parent, husband and attentive human being floating the rivers of western Montana. Dombrowski doesn’t shy away from wonder or the mystical and the fear and awe that comes with both. The cow elk that dies of a broken heart and eating that very heart, daughter Lily seeing birds

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