Secrets and Lies

Terry Strickland is a 27-year-old assistant in a residential nursing facility in New York City. While in Mr. Derne's room – a 94-year-old mute – Terry finds a wooden box wrapped in brittle yellowed newspaper, with the date September 1945 – the end of World War II. Inside is an old war medal and a small black book that is empty apart from the last two pages, which has the coordinates for South Brother Island that is in New York's East River, less than a mile from the nursing home. Along with...