Moonglow Bay

By Kevin McCarey

Moonglow Bay is a collection of fictional tales inspired by the filmmaker’s journeys from the ruins of Machu Picchu to the islands of the Spanish Caribbean, from a California fishing village to the mountains of Lebanon. And everywhere we encounter memorable characters—some delightfully eccentric, but all confronting the adventure of life with strength and compassion. McCarey’s stories evoke the fiction of Paul Theroux, Richard Russo and John Steinbeck.

A down-and-out fisherman must reconcile with the teenaged daughter he deserted when she was a child. A boy, whose mother has descended into madness, is left with his Zorba-like grandfather in Puerto Rico. A grief-stricken traveler in the cloud forests of Peru encounters two eccentric French mimes who instill in him a renewed sense of wonder and delight. A Red Cross volunteer in Lebanon is devastated by the sight of a fire-ravaged nature reserve—her childhood haunt. A young man plans his escape from an island of lost dreams off Cuba's mainland.