Waiting for Wren

A decade ago, Wren Preston left her hometown in Maine’s rural Aroostook County, hoping to distance herself forever from bitter memories—and especially from her alcoholic father. Now Wren is a professional magazine photographer living in Boston, engaged to marry her editor, and accustomed to shielding herself against true intimacy from behind a camera lens.

When Wren reluctantly agrees to return to Aroostook to cover a story about her closest childhood friend, John Turner, she’s startled to f...