This book presents with one of the most interesting and unique premises I have encountered in a long while. Our main focus of interest Piper Parish loves her life with her husband, and he is a part of her everyday routine. The only problem with this is the little inconsequential fact that her husband is dead. Piper lives on a quaint island known as Frick Island which is slowing sinking due to climate change. The island has a robust group of interesting and quirky characters all of whom indulge Piper in her delusion involving her very dead very much not there husband. This little tidbit is what brings us to our protagonist Anders Caldwell, who happens to be an ambitious journalist. Said ambition brings him to Frick Island and to him stumbling ass backward right into this peculiar situation.