Protected from the news media after her brother dies, Saskia is palmed off on family friends — Jane and Philip and their son, Xavier. They are bohemians, meaning that they live in a loft in Manhattan and Philip is a moody artist with a beard. After Jane leaves him, Philip bundles the kids into the car and drives up to a place called Home, a commune deep in the Maine woods. Maybe Saskia is the girl in the violent prophecy that Abraham, the magnetic pseudo-mystic who runs the place, keeps alluding to? “To speak the language of this place was another way to get close to you,” she writes.

Source: New York Times August 17, 2021 20:03 UTC