A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall

Owen Burr is the gifted and promising captain of the Stanford water polo team. After he suffers a catastrophic injury that destroys his hopes for the future, however, he moves to Berlin to become an artist, and then disappears - compelling his father, Professor Joseph Burr, to travel the world to find him.

Tracing a path from California to Athens to Iceland, A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall offers a persuasive vision of faith, ambition, art, family, and the myths we write for ourselves.