Leaving a restless life in 1916 Stockholm, Sven Ormson flees ever farther, to an uninhabited fjord where he lives in a hut with his dog. Years into his routine isolation, the arrival of an unlikely visitor sparks a chain of surprising events that will bring Sven into a family of fellow castoffs, and determine the course of the rest of his life.

"Miller's prose is lit by sparks of Sven's somber humor and descriptive elegance…. [An] engrossing fictional memoir."—Booklist (starred review)