The House is Still There

Some places never stop shaping us.

When a box of his late mother's belongings and an old videotape draw him back to the house where he spent one unforgettable summer as a boy, a man returns to the Michigan shoreline carrying memories he has spent a lifetime trying to outrun.

Thirty years earlier, his grandmother's home stood at the end of a long maple-lined driveway overlooking Lake Huron. It was a place filled with fierce love, ordinary rituals, imperfect people, and ...