The Island Author:David Borofka Fourteen year-old Fish Becker expects the worst: a languid and lonely summer with family friends while his parents try to revive their marriage. Instead, he enters the romantic, tangled, and surreal world of Ariana and Miles Lambert. Their home is sprawling; the gardens are wildly overgrown; and the Lamberts' themselves are a revelatio... more »n. Ariana can't sleep for fear of who she'll be when she awakens, and Miles is ghost-like and haunted. But their visionary daughter, Mira, leads Fish through magic midnight rituals while their son introduces him to every kind of excess, and the summer becomes a passage, as tangled and tender as the Lamberts' garden. Beginning with a tempest, ending with a naked dive at first light, The Island is a poignant coming-of-age story, set in a world where time shifts like loyalties.« less