And Then We Went Fishing

From Dirk Benedict, author of Confessions of a Kamikaze Cowboy, comes an equally brilliant autobiographical look at fatherhood, fate, and forgiveness. And Then We Went Fishing is an intertwining of two unique and engrossing stories. The first revolves around Dirk and his wife Toni's unexpectedly complicated attempt at home birthing, and the second around Dirk's coming of age in Montana and the violent death of his father. Tales of love, friendship, hatred, and fatherhood careen together to explode in front of him in the taking of his dad's life and the birth of his first child. Dirk Benedict's writing style is lively, creative, and always engaging. His use of humor, pathos, and imagery is masterful. He has taken two rits of passage in his life and woven them together to produce a story that's every bit as entertaining as it is moving. Given the author's unique storytelling ability and well-honed sense of timing, And Then We Went Fishing will keep the reader hooked from page one to its powerful and poignant conclusion.