A man flees from his life and loss in the Midwest to Monhegan Island, a remote Maine enclave 10 miles off the coast—a quiet lobstering community during the cold months that becomes a summertime artists' colony, hiking paradise, birdwatching mecca, and vacation destination. The perfect place to lose himself and his pain. On the island, he meets several characters who transform his image of the island and himself. And, as the summer progresses, a mysterious writer is anonymously posting chapters of a novel around the island about... a man who flees from his life and loss in the Midwest and comes to Monhegan Island, where...