Soon after they got married, Myers' wife starts calling to say she has to stay late in the office - a job that requires no special skills and never requires her to stay late. Her husband, of course, is suspicious and starts following her, most evenings. She appears to be walking through New York without going anywhere, sometimes she stops for tea or coffee. It takes Myers a few weeks to realize that she is following a man. But she doesn't know the man or, indeed, the reason she tracks his movements. Her husband, however, realizes that he knows him from college. The man's name is Gray.
Gray has his own marital troubles. He left his wife and young daughter and now strolls around New York. After a few months of man following woman following man, Gray leaves again, leaving the wife stranded and the marriage of the Myers in tethers. Eventually, Myers decides to leave. He sets out to find Gray to execute some sort of revenge. The journey takes him to Syracuse, NY, where Gray lives but has just left for Nicaragua.
The two men are in e-mail contact and Myers follows Gray to Nicaragua. The final destination is one Corn Island aka 'the most beautiful island'. Only, it appears to be very difficult to get to, with multiple stops along the way and boat after boat after boat. Canceled credit cards and injuries suffered in an earthquake make the journey all the more difficult for Myers, who loses his real purpose along the way. And Gray is not actually in Nicaragua but only thinks he is.
Then there are two stories of daughters looking for their fathers, one is linked to Myers, whom she saw out of a train window in Syracuse and recognizes later in a photo showing her father. The other is Gray's daughter, now grown, still looking for him in Nicaragua years later.
It will all make sense in the end.
8/10
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