When Laurel Estabrook is attacked while riding her bicycle through Vermont s back roads, her life is forever changed. Formerly outgoing, Laurel withdraws into her photography, spending all her free time at a homeless shelter. There she meets Bobbie Crocker, a man with a history of mental illness and a box of photographs that he won t let anyone see. When Bobbie dies, Laurel discovers a deeply hidden secret a story that leads her far from her old life, and into a cat-and-mouse game with pursuers who claim they want to save her. In a tale that travels between the Roaring Twenties and the twenty-first century, between Jay Gatsby s Long Island and rural New England, bestselling author Chris Bohjalian has written his most extraordinary novel yet."