In November 1946, three-year-old Ole Carlson lived with his family in a rural waterfront home on idyllic Bainbridge Island near Seattle, Washington. His father was a World War II shipyard welder. His mother was a stay-at-home housewife raising three children. As rain continuously fell and the Earth could no longer absorb it, disaster struck and changed everything. In a fascinating retelling of his first eighteen years of life, Carlson begins by detailing...