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The carefree days of summer bring an unexpected turn in Michelle Baron's life when her former student (and the birth mother of their adopted son) returns to Sandy Cove. What is Amber Gamble seeking? How will it affect Michelle and her family? And will patriarch Grandpa Phil, facing a heart-wrenching challenge himself, be able to help them lean on God for answers as they await what lies around the bend? Welcome back to Sandy Cove, where hearts and lives intertwine in the dance of life.

In this incandescent novel, V.S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one man, an Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in an isolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly independent African nation. Naipaul gives us the most convincing and disturbing vision yet of what happens in a place caught between the dangerously alluring modern world and its own tenacious past and traditions.