Longlisted for the 2020 Grand Prix de littrature amricaine Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2017 Top 10 Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Books 2017 Indie Next Summer 2018 Pick For Reading Groups The haunting tale of a desolate cottage and the hairthin junction between this life and the next from bestselling National Book Award finalist Gail Godwin. After his mothers death elevenyearold Marcus is sent to live on a small South Carolina island with his great aunt a reclusive painter with a