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Counterpoint
July 2012
On Sale: July 3, 2012
288 pages
ISBN: 1582438293
EAN: 9781582438290
Kindle: B008ATNU64
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Non-Fiction Memoir
On a warm September night in 1991, in a quiet neighborhood
north of Houston, Texas, David McGlynn’s closest friend and
teammate on the high school swimming team is found murdered
on his living room floor. As the crime goes unsolved and his
friends turn to drugs and violence, McGlynn is vulnerable,
rootless, searching for answers. He is drawn into the
eccentric and often radical world of evangelical
Christianity—a journey that leads him to a proselytizing
campus fellowship in Southern California, on a mission to
Australia, and to Salt Lake City, where a second
swimming–related tragedy leaves him doubting the
authenticity of his beliefs. In his post–evangelical life, he finds himself exiled from
his parents, plunged into financial chaos, and caught
off–guard by the prospect of fatherhood. A new job offers
hope for a new beginning, until the possibility of losing
his newborn son forces him to confront the nature of
everything he believes. The memoir’s concluding chapter, which appeared in The Best
American Sports Writing 2009, celebrates the author’s love
for swimming, the enduring metaphor for his faith and the
setting for many of his life’s momentous occasions. Rough
Water charts the violent origins of one young man’s faith
and the struggle to find meaning in the midst of life’s
painful uncertainties.
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