Beyond the quiet roads of coastal Maine, Sayda Longbow has fashioned a life apart: a secluded homestead, a lush greenhouse, the perfect library, and the deliberate absence of other people. Once a physician and chemist, Sayda now writes for academia and cultivates plants beautiful enough to kill.
An April morning ushers in a flood of newspaper advertisements, as harassing as their author, conspiring to lure Sayda from her carefully cultivated solitude with the one thing she cannot resist: antique books.
Set against a windswept coast and untouched forests, The Isolationist is a quiet, atmospheric story about the strange alchemy of grief, the fragile chemistry of human connection, and the realization that even the most poisonous things in nature can become medicine when understood.
Genre: Literary Fiction
An April morning ushers in a flood of newspaper advertisements, as harassing as their author, conspiring to lure Sayda from her carefully cultivated solitude with the one thing she cannot resist: antique books.
Set against a windswept coast and untouched forests, The Isolationist is a quiet, atmospheric story about the strange alchemy of grief, the fragile chemistry of human connection, and the realization that even the most poisonous things in nature can become medicine when understood.
Genre: Literary Fiction