A librarian mother spends a summer with her metalhead teenage son. A depressive young man becomes an apprentice to a legend-in-his-own mind. These people you never think about will make you reexamine yourself.

Mikura Amelia, following her clues and research, sets her floatplane down in the Pacific, waiting for the drifting passage of Electric Island. No sooner does it appear than her GPS goes out...so where is she, and the island, headed? The sun-baked maze of streets and buildings that make up Electric Island is curious and charming...which is more than can be said for its sullen inhabitants who will barely communicate with Mikura. Did they fall prey to...