What comes after the moment that forever changes your life? This is the question which haunts Julia Bechtel, Noah Prine, and Kim Colella, the only survivors of a terrible boating accident which claimed the lives of nine other people. Julia, a forty-year-old wife and mother, realizes in the aftermath of her brush with death that there is more to her and to the world around her than she ever imagined. Feeling strangely connected to Noah -- the divorced, brooding lobsterman who helped save her life -- and Kim -- a 21-year-old whose role In the accident and subsequent muteness are a mystery -- Julia begins to explore the unique possibilities offered by the quiet island of Big Sawyer, Maine. Suddenly, things which once seemed critical lose significance and things which seemed inconsequential take on a whole new importance. Julia grows more sure that after coming so close to death that she must have more from life.
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