Summary

Miranda returned to Winthrop Island by fishing boat after 18 years away from the Island in May 1969 in “Foreword: 1969.” She told the fisherman her black eye was from a car accident and payed him to stay quiet about her arrival. She went to the Medeiros’ general store, feeling like she had hurtled back in time to her 18-year-old self. Mrs. Medeiro agreed to drive her to Greyfriars. Miranda asked Mrs. Mediero about her grandson, Joseph, who had recently escaped from prison, but Mrs. Medeiro did not provide a sufficient answer. Mrs. Medeiro told Miranda that her mother had to take in boarders—artists—to keep Greyfriars afloat.

Book 1, “June,” begins with Bianca Medeiro’s perspective in Part 1, “1930 (Bianca Medeiro).” In Chapter 1, she is infatuated with Hugh Fisher, a member of a new summer family on the Island. As she stocks her...