A man arrives at a house on the coast to write a book. Separated from his family and friends, he finds the solitude he craves in the beauty of nature, just as the world he has shut out is experiencing a cataclysmic shift. The preoccupations that have held him and his work fall away. A breathtakingly novel about finding joy and beauty in a raging world, about the refractions of memory and the mystery of art and its creation. From the bestselling author of "The Slap".