Float Plan - by Rob Hiaasen

About the Book

Float Plan is a contemporary novel featuring a chainsaw attack on a gazebo, a basset hound named Dean and a life-saving mozzarella stick. At its quirky, serious heart, the story is about what happens to a young man who steers himself toward love, forgiveness and happiness. Or close enough.

Book Synopsis

When life throws you overboard, learn to float.

Will Larkin teaches algebra and has been married 2.92 years (he never rounds off). He has no children, two friends and one dog. His life is perfectly routine until he loses his wife, job, dog, boat and even his freedom all in one spectacularly hard year.

He also didn't plan on falling in love with vet tech named Parker Cool.

Float Plan is a contemporary novel featuring a chainsaw attack on a gazebo, a basset hound named Dean and a life-saving mozzarella stick. At its quirky, serious heart, the story is about what happens to a young man who steers himself toward love, forgiveness and happiness. Or close enough.

Float Plan is also a love letter to Annapolis and Baltimore - and to fathers and mothers, old friends, dogs, boats and second chances.

Review Quotes

"This novel keeps alive not only the memory of my brother, but the vitality of his huge talent. I can hear his voice on every page - his quiet and sneaky wit, his wide-armed embrace of life's wobbliest characters, and his heartfelt fascination with why good people make the wildly improbable choices they do."

-- Carl Hiaasen, best-selling author and brother of Float Plan's author