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A Road Out Of Naknek Part One: The Tide Turns, Keith Wilson
A Road Out Of Naknek Part One: The Tide Turns, Keith Wilson
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I make an annual summertime return to Naknek, a town on Bristol Bay where the salmon have made their own annual summertime return for thousands of years. My thesis is a series of nonfiction essays about my background there, both as a commercial fisherman and my upbringing. It is something I consider the “Part One” of a book still under the process of writing. It is a series of essays, alternating these two motifs of the salmon and of my experiences growing up somewhere like Naknek.
I constructed this thesis to read like the tide. Bristol Bay salmon go out …