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"As the lighthouse keeper's daughter, Lampie must light a lantern every evening to warn ships away from the rocks. It is a lot of responsibility that her invalid father has given her. One stormy night something goes wrong, her father is furious, and the town insists someone must pay. Lampie is sent to work as a servant at the admiral's Black House, where rumors of a monster lurk. What she finds up in the tower is unexpected, and not altogether tame,...

"Explores the life of one lighthouse as it beams its message out to sea through shifting seasons, changeable weather, and the tenure of its final keeper."--

A hypnotic and hallucinatory tale of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.

When a lighthouse keeper and his wife find a baby adrift in a row boat, they decide to keep her and raise her as their own.