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Henry Hansen is a young man on the brink of a cataclysmic life change. But he doesn't get it. While there is no question of his academic achievements, his past is full of shadows. Uncertainty clouds his true ability to become the man he thinks he already is. His experience in outdoor sports helps him find relationships which guide his matriculation into manhood (in all the best senses of the word). His first real encounters with strong women teach him invaluable lessons. Henry learns to deal with responsibility, business, personal risk, diverse friendships, relationships, and joy in assimilating new experiences into daily behavior. In life as in fly fishing, mending is critical; perhaps even the most important skill. Sex appeal, threats from the mob, high level business, baseball, basketball, golf, and fly fishing merge to produce a rite-of-passage adventure for anyone who confronts the unknowable.

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T. A. Parrish is a seasoned business executive, consultant, and avid fly fisherman. A native of Texas, he has lived and/or worked on five continents, fished widely in North America from Alaska to Pennsylvania, and golfed from Washington State to Scotland, Continental Europe, and South Africa. Raised on sports and educated in academically challenging institutions, he has been indoctrinated with ideals of fair play and skill development. With wry humor and biting insights, he creates an accurate though sometimes prickly version of maturing. His skepticism is balanced with an unrelenting optimism which does not retreat from hard observations, but also refuses to submit to the cynicism which often accompanies them. Mending is his first novel and explores concepts and characters not often associated with each other. He writes from experience in worlds that he has inhabited. Set in a universal place which many will find familiar, Mending sees and observes events in an indistinct time which are just as relevant today as they might have been half a century ago or will be half a century in the future.

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