Founding Fish Add to that parents' complicated

Add to that parents' complicated relationships with their own upbringings

Maybe a party is just not the place for them

Yet even the festive atmosphere can't keep the shadows of the past from looming

and by controlling how you communicate every day

and what she finds there is bewildering

Founding Fish Add to that parents' complicatedJohn McPhee's twenty sixth book is a braid of personal history, natural history, and American history, in descending order of volume. Each spring, American shad Alosa sapidissima leave the ocean in hundreds of thousands and run heroic distances upriver to spawn. McPhee a shad fisherman himself recounts the shad's cameo role in the lives of George Washington and Henry David Thoreau. He fishes with and visits the laboratories of famous ichthyologists;