Maya has amnesia about all her sexual experiences, but when her best friend Harper Martin is caught smuggling art objects into the country from Nicaragua she must forget her own problems and rally the townspeople of Provincetown to get him amnesty from prosecution. In the process of garnering town support, she immerses herself in town politics and dynamics and uncovers the role of forgiveness in healing her own pain.

Laura Marello is the author of Claiming Kin, The Tenants of the Hotel Biron, Balzac's Robe, The Gender of Inanimate Objects and Other Stories, and several other books. The recipient of numerous prestigious arts grants, she resides in Lynchburg, VA. Claiming Kin (Guernica 2009), was nominated for the PEN/Bingham Award.