A kind of psychological and literary thriller, this novel features a vibrant and soul-hungry group living in a formerly abandoned, now passionately revived village railway station. These include a sassy, sexy ex-high school teacher seeking a new life while hiding away from her vengeful husband, a boy just out of college looking for something better than being the son of a crude and manipulative billionaire, a salesman desperately promoting an invention to revolutionize the American home, and an ironic hunter working for the nearby Gourmoo Choo Choo dinner train. All are under the influence of the “Stationmaster”, who from personal tragedy has been gifted with a photographic memory that has deepened his life but frightens local villagers with what he remembers of their lives. The locals’ fears are further played upon by a company of sinister strangers pushing a fraudulent security system to protect them in their homes, though as one observes “Who is going to protect us from them!” This novel has it all—the strivings of modern people to escape their fears and deepen their lives, the strategies and wild comedy this often entails, the confrontation of commercial fraud, heroism in the face of threatened murder and the promise of going deep into one’s own past memory pictures as a key to a rebirth of purpose in the world