Title: Ride the High Waves
Description: Vin Smith is back with a tour de force coming-of-age novel forty years in the making. Based on the tumultous first semester of his freshman year in college, Ride the High Waves is an astoundingly erotic study of love and loss, and the desperate search for meaning. 

Losing his beloved grandfather on the first day of classes, Vin meets Kathy Baumgarner, an equally lost freshman coping with deaths in her own family. Unwilling to let the young Theology major she is falling in love with sink into the depths of depression, Kathy lends a sympathetic ear as Vin recounts the extraordinary life of his New England grandfather, while at the same time working through the pain of his dysfunctional California family. 

The lovers find themselves at odds with authority figures at the university as they take turns sneaking inside each other's dormitory rooms. A series of breathtaking adventures draw them even closer until Kathy's childhood girlfriend, Mickie Marson, herself falls in love with the rebellious young man. Will it be the death of a beautiful, fiery romance, or will there be an old-fashioned menage a trois? 

"This is a really good book...probably one of the most original books I've ever read...It was like I was there fishing with the grandfather, or making love to the two beautiful coeds. Very sexy book, yet quite erudite." Biology Books.net
Subjects: coming of age novel, New England fishing village, rigors of first semester in college, young love, love story, typical family histories of New England fishing villages, Fiction, erotica, general
Places: Guilford, CT, New England, Riverside, CA
People: Sam "What in the Sam Hill is he running for now?" Hill
Time periods: Fall of 1962--the last days of American innocense before the assassination of JFK, New England circa 1954, Guilford, CT circa 1954, 17th century New England