Caitlin Gray has come to remote Alabaster Island to escape her troubled family life, which is falling apart because of her husbands affair and a horrific car accident. She meets Freddy Orcutt, an old-time islander who embraces her as a daughter, and Ozalik Mosely, a Native American who is trying to preserve her heritage while battling her own private disturbances. Caitlin helps Ozalik publish an account of a tragic event thathappened to her people many years before but the islanders become incensed when they are forced to confront their ancestors atrocities.Island of First Light is a portrait of human nature and the sense of family that we all search for when faced with adversity. Norman Gautreau brings alive the rugged Maine coast, reflecting a landscape that can be as turbulent as the lives of the people that live there.
Caitlin Gray has come to remote Alabaster Island to escape her troubled family life, which is falling apart because of her husbands affair and a horrific car accident. She meets Freddy Orcutt, an old-time islander who embraces her as a daughter, and Ozalik Mosely, a Native American who is trying to preserve her heritage while battling her own private disturbances. Caitlin helps Ozalik publish an account of a tragic event thathappened to her people many years before but the islanders become incensed when they are forced to confront their ancestors atrocities.Island of First Light is a portrait of human nature and the sense of family that we all search for when faced with adversity. Norman Gautreau brings alive the rugged Maine coast, reflecting a landscape that can be as turbulent as the lives of the people that live there.