On Knowing Mr. Hobbs

In the small lakeside town of Lake Harbor, Michigan, a man named Mr. Hobbs has spent decades quietly transforming everyone around him one morning walk at a time. With his cheerful dog Rusty, his Daisy and Rose lapel, and a punctuality that sets the town rhythm he is beloved by all and truly known by none.William Witmore changes that. Beginning as a curious boy on Mr. Hobbs's block and growing into the old man's confidant, apprentice, and biographer, William pieces together an astonishing life through journals, diaries, and his own personal journey. What emerges is the portrait of a Korean War veteran whose battlefield injury awakens a telepathic gift he calls Horatio who guides him into a life of astonishing discovery and adventure." On Knowing Mr. Hobbs" is a novel about earned wisdom, the quiet stewardship of extraordinary gifts, and the luminous possibility that something like Horatio lives in every one of us.