Blue Road to Atlantis (Hardcover)

"For he who knows his own current and swims within it, prosperity is inevitable."
-From BLUE ROAD TO ATLANTIS

"This is the holiness of fish, that we have no arms with which to hold on to anything. We submit to the current because we know the futility of holding on. Letting go is our way. See how the fisherman paddles furiously with his puny oars? Such is the will of humans, their greatest strength and greatest frailty. Our Gulf Stream is a fifty-mile-wide jet stream, yet he thinks he can challenge it. This is why you were not given hands, Jotaro, but beautiful, pliant fins."
-from BLUE ROAD TO ATLANTIS

From the unlikely hero of this achingly beautiful tale comes an inspirational guide to life in the tradition of Ishmael and Watership Down....

BLUE ROAD TO ATLANTIS

With a powerful vision about living courageously, this exquisitely told story is as wise as it is emotionally compelling. In it, a huge marlin, called the Old Fish, has long escaped capture by the fishermen of the Caribbean. He is a samurai of the deep; amid deadly sharks and viperfish, a warrior grown wise in the ways of survival. Now, accompanied by the story's irascible, humorous narrator, a remora, the Old Fish is traveling to Atlantis just ahead of a murderous Red Tide. His desperate hope is to save the sea, yet awaiting him is his ultimate opponent...who is to be his greatest teacher or his doom.

Like a polished gem, Jay Nussbaum's powerful allegory shines with illumination about living life to our fullest potential. Buoyed by sea lore and aphorisms, it is an enlightening story of dreams and fears and "swimming with the current."