In Home Waters, John N. Maclean returns to Montana’s Blackfoot River, a place that has shaped his family for generations.
The river is legend. It was immortalized in Norman Maclean’s A River Runs Through It, and it still winds past the cabin John’s grandfather built by hand. Each summer, John returns to cast his line and chase the trout of a lifetime.
But the story here is more than fishing. It is family history marked by triumph, tragedy, and an unbreakable bond to place. John uncovers the real lives behind the characters his father fictionalized, including his luminous but doomed uncle Paul.
Part memoir, part elegy, Home Waters is about the ways land, water, and memory flow together to define who we are.
