An Uncomfortable Life

PARIS, 1925.
An aspiring writer during the glittering Jazz Age has the only manuscript of his debut novel stolen.

MASSACHUSETTS, PRESENT DAY
A literary journalist sets out on an investigation into the disappearance of a talented young debut novelist that dropped away from public life soon after his internationally-bestselling novel hit shelves. To discover his whereabouts she attempts to enlist the help of the vanished novelist’s brother, a successful artist living in Nantucket.

PARIS, 1944.
An American infantryman uncovers something pure and of worth in war-torn Europe.

VIRGINIA, PRESENT DAY
A bearded hermit lives an isolated and contented life in the tranquil Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, satisfied with self-sufficiency and his own musings.

All of these stories and more collide during a heavy October snowstorm that serves to entrap people from different walks of life in a tale of confrontation, estrangement, love, shame, connection and mystery of the literary sort.