It's Only Drowning: A True Story of Learning to Surf and the Search for Common Ground a novel for a lifetime

a novel for a lifetime

without blaming anyone

she grieves for Bobby

she must also face the truth of who she is and who she must become to save them all

But everything changes when he adopts an aspiring teenage thief named Bill Sikes

It's Only Drowning: A True Story of Learning to Surf and the Search for Common Ground a novel for a lifetime* A GOODREADS MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF SUMMER 2025 * A TOWN & COUNTRY BEST BOOK OF SUMMER 2025 * A former Obama speechwriter moves to the Jersey Shore and learns to surf with the help of his brother in law: a tattooed, truck driving Joe Rogan superfan. David, the Yale educated writer with a fear of sharks, and Matt, the daredevil electrician with a shed full of surfboards, had never been close. But as America's crises piled up and David spiraled into