“Maybe this is love, the things we endure for the other, the willingness to face death, to stare it down, and not be afraid,” (Ernshaw 216).
Travis Wren has a gift for finding missing people, all he has to do is touch an object belonging to the missing person and he can get an image of where the person went. When he is hired by the parents of a famous author of dark children’s stories, Maggie St. James, Travis finds himself on the road to a town called Pastoral. A rural community founded in the 1970s, the town itself seems like a thing of legend, but Travis follows the road Maggie took thinking we may find it. Years later Theo, a lifelong member of Pastoral, finds Travis’ abandoned truck on the border just outside of the community where he himself is not supposed to go in fear of bring the rot, a deadly disease, into the community. But Theo isn’t the only one with secrets, his wife Calla and her blind sister Bee also carry them safely in their hearts, but secrets can only stay hidden for so long. Continue reading
Sarah O'Connor 