Daniel Gumbiner Biography Daniel Gumbiner is the author of two novels, The Boatbuilder (McSweeney’s, 2018) and Fire in the Canyon (Astra House, 2023). See Work FICTION / Fall 2025 The Vermilion Sea By Daniel Gumbiner , Illustrations by Wesley Allsbrook Uffa had been given the boat for free. It was an unlikely story but true nevertheless. Here was the situation: As a kid, he had made a deal with his friend Aaron that the first person to make a million dollars would buy the other one a boat...