"Every summer Isak Lövenstad gathers his three daughters by different wives to the windswept Baltic island of Hammarsö. Here Erika, Laura, and Molly know, if only for the season, what it is to be a family, and here, in the society of children, each undergoes the rites of growing up." However, one summer, Erika's bond with a local boy precipitates an incident that forever changes their lives and alters their family. "Twenty-five years later the three women confront, finally, the specter of that awful summer, the mark of which each has since carried"--Page 2 of cover.