In a decade of skyborne achievement and earthbound unrest, two boys fashion a bond of brotherhood that sustains them toward adulthood. When one is killed suddenly in what appears to be a tragic accident, the other is left to move haltingly into adulthood until confronted with clear evidence that his friend’s death was something other than it seemed. A heartfelt story of coming of age in the 1960s, "Like a Hole in the Water" confronts the Jim Crow South, the looming conflict in Vietnam, the Cold War and the feverish race to the moon. Packed with boyhood nostalgia, gut-wrenching pain and redemptive healing, it nevertheless addresses timeless themes of acceptance, remembrance and forgiveness. Neil Sherouse is a 6th generation Floridian, an avid fly fisherman and an aspiring curmudgeon. He and Marsha, his wife of undisclosed decades, live in central Florida but enjoy respite in the mountains of North Carolina when the Florida summers become intolerable—in other words, any time from April through October. This is his second novel, and if he lives long enough, there may be more.
