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It's the warmer summer months of 1992 and a gypsy moth invasion blankets Avalon Island. Ravenous caterpillars disrupt early on warmer summer months serenity on Avalon, an islet off the shoreline of Long Island - falling onto novels still left open up on picnic blankets, crawling across the T-shirts of children doing offers of label and capture the flag. The caterpillars become a relentless issue of island discussion and the inescapable soundtrack of the season. It is also the summer Leslie Day Marshall - only girl of Avalon's most prominent family - profits with her partner, a botanist, and their children to live in "The Castle", the island's grandest real estate. Leslie's partner Jules is African-American, and their children biracial, and islanders from both edges of the songs form fast and dangerous thoughts about the new arrivals. Maddie Pencott LaRosa straddles those songs: a teen queen with origins in the tony precincts of East Avalon and the crowded working class place of Western world Avalon, home to Grudder Aviation manufacturing plant, the island's bread-and-butter. Maddie falls in love with Brooks, Leslie's and Jules's boy, and this love feels as immediate to Maddie as the questions about the new and lethal cancers turning up across the island. Could Grudder Aviation, the take great pride in of the island - and its patriarch, the Colonel - be at fault?
