As a nor’easter bears down on her Massachusetts town, Fiona Richter places a frantic 911 call. Simon, her eighty-year-old husband who suffers from dementia, has gone missing. His clarinet too . . . So begins The Singing Stick, the spellbinding story of a son, his long-dead mother, and the music that anchors them both in times of great unmooring. Follow Simon out the door into a swirl of secrets that have shaped his life. Let music open a mysterious portal between past and present, memory and meaning, isolation and connection, trauma and healing.