Cygnet

Summary/Review: "The seventeen-year-old Kid doesn't know where her parents are. They left her with her grandmother Lolly months ago, promising to return soon. Now Lolly is dead and the Kid is stranded ten miles off the New Hampshire coast on tiny Swan Island. With no other relatives to turn to, the Kid works for a neighbor airbrushing the past - digitally retouching photos and movies - for money to survive. But the Kid's island home is populated by a group of elderly separatists who fled the youth-obsessed mainland. Her presence unnerves them, and they want her gone. But the Kid isn't the only problem threatening the insular community. Swan Island is eroding into the rising sea, threatening their very existence there." --Back cover.