Float: The Mostly True Adventures of Casey Wrobel (Signed Paperback)

On the third Sunday in October, a man with a rubber duck in his pocket sits down on a bench at the edge of Grand Lake, and the strangers start sitting down beside him.

He is Casey Wrobel: the son of a Detroit hubcap thief and a German girl who met in a Nuremberg dance hall without a word in common. He outran a wildfire at sixteen, married his first love in her parents' backyard with thirty old bandmates as the orchestra, and sold just about everything a man can sell, from cars to soap to a whole wall of rubber ducks. He lost his father for twenty years and found him again in three folding chairs. He grew a little cabin to a hundred and sixty-three windows. He was the mayor the night the mountain caught fire.

Now the first big storm of the year is closing over Berthoud Pass, and his grandson is somewhere on the road. So Papa does what he has always done. He keeps talking, and he keeps floating.

A funny, big-hearted novel about a life lived backward, forward and sideways, and about learning that you don't have to be the fastest, or the luckiest, or the best.

Signed by the author and shipped from Grand Lake, Colorado. Stephen Krown is the pen name of Grand Lake's Steve Kudron. Paperback, 6 x 9. Ships beginning December 1, 2026.