A whimsical, moving novel about a retirement home for literary
legends who spar, conjure up new stories, and almost magically
change the lives of the people around them. Alfonse Carducci was a
literary giant who lived his life to excess-lovers, alcohol,
parties, and literary rivalries. But now he's come to the Bar
Harbor Home for the Elderly to spend the remainder of his days
among kindred spirits: the publishing industry's nearly gone but
never forgotten greats. Only now, at the end of his life, does he
comprehend the price of appeasing every desire, and the
consequences of forsaking love to pursue greatness. For Alfonse has
an unshakeable case of writer's block that distresses him much more
than his precarious health. Set on the water in one of New
England's most beautiful locales, the Bar Harbor Home was
established specifically for elderly writers needing a place to
live out their golden years-or final days-in understated luxury and
surrounded by congenial literary company. A faithful staff of
nurses and orderlies surround the writers, and are drawn into their
orbit, as they are forced to reckon with their own life stories.
Among them are Cecibel Bringer, a young woman who knows first-hand
the cost of chasing excess. A terrible accident destroyed her face
and her sister in a split-second decision that Cecibel can never
forgive, though she has tried to forget. Living quietly as an
orderly, refusing to risk again the cost of love, Cecibel never
anticipated the impact of meeting her favorite writer, Alfonse
Carducci-or the effect he would have on her existence. In Cecibel,
Alfonse finds a muse who returns him to the passion he thought he
lost. As the words flow from him, weaving a tale taken up by the
other residents of the Pen, Cecibel is reawakened to the idea of
love and forgiveness. As the edges between story and reality blur,
a world within a world is created. It's a place where the old are
made young, the damaged are made whole, and anything is
possible....
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