From Ki Ypermaho Stratego, the song he sang with his father when he was six, and they sometimes still sing today in their car rides together, to the indelible ethnic-American popular hits of his Queens, New York and Danbury, Connecticut youth, to the classical music references that underscore Metaxas and his Mother’s return to East Germany, Fish Out of Water overflows with musical context. Along the way, Metaxas introduces us to an unforgettable troupe of Runyonesque characters who join this quintessentially first-generation American boy on his odyssey, underscoring how simultaneously funny, serious, happy, sad, and meaningful life can be.Įric Metaxas infused Fish Out of Water with a cornucopia of references to music. But as a young writer, Metaxas drifts toward an abyss of meaninglessness-one from which he barely escapes. The offspring of two families with disparate traditions, their affection carried him through myriad childhood adventures and a riotous education at Yale. While millions know Metaxas as a celebrated author, the witty host of Socrates in the City, and a nationally syndicated radio personality, here he reveals an astounding personal story few have known. What happens when one of America’s most admired biographers writes his own biography? For five-times New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas ( Bonhoeffer), the answer is Fish Out of Water: A Search for the Meaning of Life - a soaring, lyrical, and often mischievous account of his early years in which the astute Queens-born son of Greek and German immigrants struggles to make a sense of a world in which he never quite seems to fit.

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