PositiveWashington PostTo me, Norman Maclean’s book, more poetry than narrative, is a triumph of American literature ... His storytelling — from the fishing with his dad to the life and death of his Uncle Paul — is reliable, elegant and charming ... Home Waters is about geology and glaciers and the forming of a river. It’s about history and Meriwether Lewis and how larch trees grew to be giants. It’s about nostalgia and cross-country car rides to a family cabin by Seeley Lake in Montana and how generations of Macleans became tied to a place. There’s also a fair bit about trout and his famous father’s book ... Maclean’s writing is often intimate. Family lore, told and retold, can be a fuzzy thing, but some memories about his father, like their first time fishing together, remained spectacularly vivid and personal.
