TY - BOOK AU - Eggers,Dave ED - McSweeney's (Firm), TI - Sanrevelle T2 - Forgetters series SN - 196327041X U1 - 813.6 23/eng/20250722 PY - 2025/// CY - San Francisco, CA PB - Mc Sweeney's KW - Self-realization KW - Fiction KW - Midlife crisis KW - City and town life KW - California KW - San Francisco KW - Sailing KW - Mentoring N1 - This story, in slightly different form, was first published in The Georgia Review, and also the 2025 O. Henry Prize collection--title page verso N2 - A man named Hop, not too young and not too old, lives in a sinking skyscraper and works for a personal-injury lawyer who's slowly losing his mind. Every day Hop stares out at the tiny boats on the San Francisco Bay, wanting to be there and not filing paperwork for a cloistered madman. Finally Hop goes to a rickety dock by the sea, seeking sailing lessons. He meets the singular Sanravelle, a barefoot captain, who leads him out of the blight and into a life of speed and cold and light ER -