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In 1898, a female forsakes the comfort of home and family for a love that can take her to a remote control lighthouse on the wild seacoast of California. What she finds at the border of the earth, hidden between your sea and the fog, changes her life irrevocably. Trudy, who can argue Kant over meal and play a good part of Mozart's Serenade in G major, has been raised to marry her childhood friend and assume a life of bourgeois comfort in Milwaukee. She recognizes she should be satisfied, but she's restless instead, yearning for something she does not have even the vocabulary to articulate. When she falls in love with enigmatic and ambitious Oskar, she is convinced she's found her get away from from the banality of her preordained life. But get away turns out to be more fraught than Trudy acquired imagined. Alienated from family and friends, the couple moves across the country to have a job at a lighthouse at Point Lucia, California - an unnervingly isolated outcropping, caught between the ocean and hundreds of a long way of inaccessible wilderness. There they meet the light station's only inhabitants - the formidable and guarded Crawleys. In such a new place, Trudy will see that nothing is as she might have predicted, especially after she discovers what hides on the list of rocks. Gorgeously precise, swiftly paced, and anchored in the remarkable geography of the remote control and eternally mesmerizing Big Sur, The Border of the Earth is a enchanting account of secrets and self-transformation, ruses and rebirths. Christina Schwarz, celebrated for her rich evocation of place and vibrant, unpredictable characters, has spun another haunting and remarkable tale.

Category: Historical