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What will you share with save the thing you love the most? It's been 20 years since Lucie Bowen left the islands. Two decades ago the May Day Quake placed loose catastrophic waves over the West Coast, from Alaska to California, shattering thousands of lives. Two decades ago Lucie's father disappeared within an explosion at the Marrow Island olive oil refinery, a tragedy that destroyed the island's ecosystem and dispatched Lucie and her mother to the mainland to start out anew. Two decades previously Lucie and her closest friend, Katie, were just Puget Sound children, tucked up under their desks, hovering under mylar mattress sheets, hoping to make it through. Now Katie writes with strange and miraculous reports. Marrow Island is no more uninhabitable, no more abandoned. She is part of a community, the inexplicable Colony, that has in some way conjured life again from Marrow's earth. Lucie returns. Her journalist intuition tell her there's more to the Colony and their charismatic innovator - a former nun with an all-consuming plan - than its people want her to know. The island's astonishing rebirth seems to have come at great cost - perhaps to the colonists themselves. As she uncovers their secrets, will Lucie endanger more than their quest? What price will she pay for the truth? I was always an integral part of you, so you were always an integral part of me, Katie writes. And in this marvelously spun tale, Alexis Smith gets to into the depths of your connections to our pasts, our family members, our devotions. Our alternatives may bring us to the brink, but in your promises to one another and our expectations for the future, at the intersection of technology and beliefs and sophistication, there may be wonders in the making.
