BOOKS 2026 #Modan

1972, Wisconsin. Alicia Western, a brilliant doctoral student in mathematics at the University of Chicago, arrives by bus at a psychiatric hospital and voluntarily checks herself in. She is only twenty years old, and in her handbag is a plastic bag containing more than forty thousand dollars.

A novel about love that finds its way into the heart, about a bond that is slowly forged, and about old memories that flood us from the clear waters. The summer she turned seventeen, when Alice Everly was at the lake, she photographed three figures in a boat. A perfect frame, one unforgettable summer, and a picture that instilled in her a passion for photography.