A lively and inspiring memoir from #1 New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas that chronicles his unlikely journey from skeptic to believer Who am I? Where am I going? What is the meaning of life? These were the questions that had dogged Eric Metaxas his whole life. The studious son of middle-class immigrants, Metaxas had always dedicated himself to the pursuit of knowledge--to philosophy and history and literature. When he was accepted to Yale, a place that seemed to him to be a rarefied world devoted to exploring the bounds and landscape of the rational human mind, Metaxas thought he would find answers. But those same questions continued to haunt him.

After graduating from college and spending a few years working as a writer, Metaxas found himself lost, adrift in life. He moved home with his parents and accepted a dead-end, menial job. But it was under these unexpected circumstances that Metaxas found himself on the path to finding God and, finally, the purpose he'd been searching for the whole time. Fish Out of Water is a profound, funny, wise, and hopeful examination of our desire for meaning, knowing God in a secular age, and how to listen when God speaks to you.