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Fatherhood, Fly-fishing, and a River Journey Through the Heart of Alaska
St. Martin's Press
September 2007
On Sale: September 18, 2007
304 pages
ISBN: 0312371519
EAN: 9780312371517
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
While father and son fishing trips can be the stuff of
American legend, they can also turn out to be the stuff of
anger, love and self-discovery. In his memoir of a fishing
trip through the Alaskan wilderness, Lou Ureneck brings to
life the struggle to reclaim the trust of his teenage son,
Adam, following his divorce. Told against the backdrop of
the Alaskan wilds, Backcast is the remembrance of a fishing
trip that carried a father and son from the mountains of
Alaska to the Bering Sea. Along the way, nature transforms
from friend into foe, and their struggles are played out
against the poignant emotional battle raging between the two
as they descend the river headed toward confrontation. On
their journey, the two encounter nature’s dangers — bears,
violent river currents and ruthless, punishing weather — as
well as the hurts that exist between them, the reasons for
divorce, the absence of a father and the withheld love of a
son. Dipping his hand into the river of his own life,
Ureneck recounts his own fatherless childhood, the influence
of his mother’s boyfriend who helped him learn to fish, and
the realization that he himself had done the one thing he
always promised himself he would not do: He ended his
marriage in divorce. Part adventure story, part
reconciliation with life’s unexpected turns, and part
commentary on the healing power of nature, “Backcast”
explores the world of a man confronted by the hard choices
divorce can bring to create a moving meditation on fatherhood.
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