Snow Island is the story of two strangers who inhabit the same remote
island off the New England coast. Sixteen-year-old Alice Daggett still feels
the presence of her father, who died five years earlier, while she shoulders
the responsibility of running the family store. George Tibbits, a loner in
his forties and th owner of the island's twin housess, returns each year in
an act of homage to the women who raised him there. While George struggles
to make peace with his troubled past and Alice befriends the
twenty-six-year-old who tends the island lighthouse, both characters learn
the hard lesson of what it means to love.
This tender tale about the power of place and memory plumbs the depths of
two unique and uncharted lives. As America is drawn into World War II,
Goerge and Alice find their fates shaped by events that occur far from the
small Rhode Island community that defines them.
