Finding Fish

Finding Fish Book Description

Fisher's "New York Times" bestselling autobiography is the basis for the upcoming film "Antwone Fisher" from Fox Searchlight Pictures, directed by and starring Academy Award-winner Denzel Washington. Ordered to see a psychiatrist as a young sailor to help him control his anger, Fisher is inspired to seek out the family that abandoned him as a child.
A" New York Times" bestseller, "Finding Fish" is the remarkable story of an African American boy abandoned in an abusive foster home in Cleveland who rises to liberation, manhood, and extraordinary success (in Hollywood).

Born in prison to a single mother after his father was shot and killed, Antwone Fisher soon became a ward of Cleveland's foster care system. By the time he was five years old, he had been transferred to several different families. Eventually he came to live with the Picketts, an older couple with grown children of their own.

During his stay with the Picketts, which lasted until he was 17 years old, Antwone suffered near-constant verbal and physical abuse at the hands of ̩zz Pickett, and sexual abuse from a neighbour. The damage to his self-esteem was tremendous, yet Antwone managed to resist the gang-like behaviour and drug use that so many of his friends were engaged in. Finally he fled and before long he was living on the streets, homeless. Again rescuing himself, he enlisted in the Navy, where he created a ॡmily' for himself and with the help of a Navy psychologist worked through his past. After he left the Navy, while working as a security guard at Sony Pictures in Hollywood, he told his story to one of the executives there, who encouraged him to write his life as a screenplay.

Antwone Quenton Fisher has contributed to Finding Fish as an author. Fisher is currently a producer and screenwriter.

Mim Eichler Rivas has contributed to Finding Fish . Mim Eichler Rivas has worked as an author, coauthor, and collaborator on more than eighteen books, including th"e New York Times" bestsellers "The Pursuit of Happyness" with Chris Gardner and "Finding Fish" with Antwone Fisher. She is the coauthor of "Start Where You Are" with Chris Gardner and is the sole author of the highly acclaimed "Beautiful Jim Key", now in the works as a major feature film. Eichler and her family live in Hermosa Beach, California.

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