This stunning new novel from beloved author - and Much Ado favourite - Elizabeth Strout, explores grief, friendship, and freedom with her characteristically profound insight.

Artie Dam is a man with a secret. He spends his days teaching history to high schoolers, goes to holiday parties with his wife of three decades, makes small talk with neighbours, and, on weekends, takes his sailboat out on the beautiful Massachusetts Bay. He is, by all appearances, present and alive. But inside, Artie is plagued by feelings of isolation.

He looks out at a world gone mad—at himself and the people around him—and turns a question over and over in his mind: how is it that we know so little about one another, even those closest to us? And then, one day, Artie learns that life has been keeping a secret from him. He is forced to chart a new course, to reconsider the relationships he holds most dear—and to make peace with the mysteries at the heart of our existence.

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