An epic family read, Kirk Lombard's The Shadow Stream

Kirk Lombard is an author, angler, sustainable fishmonger and tuba player who worked inside the juvenile rehabilitation system. His first book, the award-winning Sea Forager’s Guide to the Northern California Coast, was described as “poetry” for fish by NPR. Now he's back with a throwback to family-reads-of-yore, this epic follows a troubled boy and a host of hilariously vexed animals who must sa…