The narrative unfolds within a pristine land- and seascape of Northern California, where a woman struggles to restore her family home. The story weaves together her mother's recently discovered journals, the daughter's re-encounter with the village and the landscape of her childhood, and Proust's In Search of Lost Time.

KATHERINE SILVER is a renowned, award-winning literary translator. She is the former director of the Banff International Literary Translation Centre. She lives in Northern California and does volunteer interpreting for asylum seekers.