Scarback: There Is So Much More To Fishing Than Catching Fish

(Larger Print Version) What would you do when the two people you count on most in life suddenly desert you? Dominic Streppone, a 30-year-old mentally challenged man with a heart of gold, was callously abandoned at birth. He still has nightmares of his tortured existence as an abused, half-starved, and critically ill migrant farm worker. His two real friends, Augie and “The Hawk”, have changed everything. Now, Dominic has a roof over his head and a steady job washing dishes in a deli, and was just elected Fairchester’s Citizen of the Year. However, with Augie moving to Chicago and “The Hawk” in a coma after a bad fall, Dominic is terrified he will be returned to the migrant farm. Will anyone come to Dominic’s rescue? This is the question Augie grapples with as he plans his annual fishing trip in pursuit of the elusive Scarback, a massive Northern Pike with an ugly wound on his back and a million-dollar bounty on his head. Augie secretly invites Dominic’s estranged parents on the trip in hopes of reuniting them with the child they abandoned decades earlier. Will Augie succeed in reconnecting them, or will a series of sometimes humorous, often heart-wrenching events further complicate matters and keep them apart?