The Sea Is My Brother

A reserved academic joins a salt-of-the-earth sailor for a tour of duty with the Merchant Marines in this early lost novel by the author of On the Road . “[ The Sea Is My Brother ] offers plenty of disarming insights into who Kerouac was as a person and writer before he slipped behind the mask of Beat Generation Zen-master . . . The book is enjoyable.” — Wall Street Journal In the spring of 1943, not long after his first tour as a Merchant Marine, twenty-one-year old Jack Kerouac