Carry Me Across the Water Author:Ethan Canin Breathtaking in its suspense and beauty, "Carry Me Across the Water" is the story of a man's turbulent journey, with his family, through the central years of the twentieth century. Young August Kleinman escapes from Nazi Germany to America, where his mother's words -? ?Take the advice of no one? -? fate him to a life of boldness and originality,... more » from the poor streets of New York to the marble mansions of industrial Pittsburgh, from old world Hamburg to the jungle islands of the Pacific. Ultimately, near the end of a long and bountiful life, his resolution of a haunting encounter with a Japanese soldier during World War II finally illuminates, at the deepest levels, the way authentic lives truly unfold.« less