Moonglow Bay

"Kevin McCarey is an imaginative talent with a gift for the magical and mystical."

-Vivian Schiller, National Public Radio

Moonglow Bay is a collection of fictional tales inspired by the filmmaker's journeys from the ruins of Machu Picchu to the islands of the Spanish Caribbean, from a California fishing village to the mountains of Lebanon. And everywhere we encounter memorable characters-some delightfully eccentric, but all confronting the adventure of life with strength and compassion. McCarey's stories evoke the fiction of Paul Theroux, Richard Russo and John Steinbeck.

A down-and-out fisherman must reconcile with the teenaged daughter he deserted when she was a child. A boy, whose mother has descended into madness, is left with his Zorba-like grandfather in Puerto Rico. A grief-stricken traveler in the cloud forests of Peru encounters two eccentric French mimes who instill in him a renewed sense of wonder and delight. A Red Cross volunteer in Lebanon is devastated by the sight of a fire-ravaged nature reserve-her childhood haunt. A young manplans his escape from an island of lost dreams off Cuba's mainland.