Does a caterpillar feel pain? Does it scream within its self-imposed prison as it transforms? Or does it embrace the change and accept that suffering is part of the process? Life in the rural town of New Boston, New Hampshire is closing in on reclusive librarian Isabella Martini. At forty-nine, Isabella has never learned how to let go of the sadness that has shrouded her since the death of her parents, nor the pain of and the pain at the betrayal of her fiance's subsequent betrayal. On the brink of yet another isolating decision, this one to live a cloistered life in an adult community,...