After missing the only ferry, recent parolee Levon Hawke makes his way across a frozen lake to an island where he has been offered a job at his cousin's bakery, only to arrive at the wrong end
of the island, where he finds a ruined house populated by a grieving Obdulia Limb, in an imaginative new novel by the author of Thinking About Magritte. Reader's Guide included. Reprint.