The Bar Harbor Home for the Elderly was created as a place for famous authors to live out their last years. Alfonse Carducci, a literary giant, now frail and declining, has come there to live out his last days. He is suffering from writer's block but with the help of other residents from the literary world he begins to write again, a novel done in round robin style with a few other residents. Carducci's newly found muse is Cecibel, a young woman whose face was seriously damaged in the car accident that killed her sister. Encountering her favorite author is life changing for both Carducci and Cecibel. The story alternates between life in the home and the chapters of the novel the authors are creating. Neither part is exceptional but it's a nice story.
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