The Great Floodgates Of The Wonderworld (2013) - Plot & Excerpts
This makes it difficult for either of us to move forward, but the one bright spot of summer is that I finally have time to learn how to surf. It starts out on Long Island, where I spend Memorial Day weekend at Kyle Grodin’s beach house. Career-free and on the back side of thirty, Grodin spends his days surfing, skateboarding, and rock climbing; he’s independently wealthy1 and has what seems to me like the perfect life. His place is a rustic and comfortable Cape Cod with split cedar shingles, but it has a spooky, Great Expectations vibe to it. His father passed away when Kyle was still young, and then his mom died before he turned thirty. He was adopted, so losing his parents was doubly traumatic. He keeps up the house like a dusty museum, the living room lined in loud, seventies-era orange wallpaper with the words peace and love spelled out in silver foil. An old piano sits near the front entrance, covered with unused sheet music and knick knacks; the built-in bookshelves in the hallway are still filled with all his parents’ old books.
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