This book was a magical read for me. A book that I never would have found had it not been on a library display table at the right time on the right day. A book well outside my "normal" wheelhouse. A book I picked up because it happened to take place in a part of Maine I love, and I decided to give it a shot. But this book - this BOOK! It is life and love, a story of outcasts finding community, a story of writers writing and people leaning into their humanity. A book that humanizes the elderly too often thrown away and discarded by society. A book with sharp dialog and intense highs and lows of emotion. I loved it. Absolutely loved it.