Chapter one: Surfing is for lunatics -- Chapter two: Woochee -- Chapter three: Pain and sorrow before they quit -- Chapter four: Free speech! -- Chapter five: It's only drowning -- Chapter six: The New Jersey rubicon -- Chapter seven: If you ever get into fights -- Chapter eight: I just don't want to be the guy who dies of hypothermia in his parking space -- Chapter nine: Water wizards -- Chapter ten: Shrimply irresistible -- Chapter eleven: Beanbag -- Chapter twelve: The Honda Odyssey -- Chapter thirteen: Try that in a small town -- Chapter fourteen: Sparring with hurricanes -- Chapter fifteen: Le Snake -- Chapter sixteen: Nothing's worse than knowing too much -- Chapter seventeen: Between us

"When a former speechwriter for President Obama starts surfing at the age of thirty-five-the rough equivalent of beginning guitar lessons on your deathbed-he is taken on an unexpected journey in which he has to learn from the only other surfer he knows, his brother-in-law, Matt, a Joe Rogan superfan"--