A young woman embarks on a life-changing cross-country trip to face a family secret rooted in America's most turbulent decade. Layla James, a recent graduate and budding photographer, never knew anything about her father except that he named her for the iconic song by Eric Clapton. Her mother--steeped in a political activism that Layla rejects--kept their past shrouded in secrecy, and when she dies of cancer, she leaves only an enigmatic letter--the first in a series that will lead Layla through a cross-country network of '60s radicals and closer to the bombshell at the heart of her...

Why an anthology of fiction, poetry, and essay on Montauk?

One of the world's great fishing ports; site of the first cattle ranch in the US; refuge for Teddy Roosevelt's Roughriders back from San Juan Hill; rum-runner headquarters during Prohibition; very nearly the Miami Beach of the north; site of the premier US lighthouse; home to unique, endangered species and second home to generations of New York firefighters, police, teachers, artists, and writers; a major defense installation during World War II and the Cold War-Montauk packs more history, culture, nature, and mystery into its...

Why an anthology of fiction, poetry, and essay on Montauk?

One of the world's great fishing ports; site of the first cattle ranch in the US; refuge for Teddy Roosevelt's Roughriders back from San Juan Hill; rum-runner headquarters during Prohibition; very nearly the Miami Beach of the north; site of the premier US lighthouse; home to unique, endangered species and second home to generations of New York firefighters, police, teachers, artists, and writers; a major defense installation during World War II and the Cold War-Montauk packs more history, culture, nature, and mystery into its...