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"It’s about a widower who lives on a lake. Their house is destroyed in a storm, he shelters in their garage built into the hillside. His wife’s blind brother lives next door -‘d navigates by a rope between their houses. They boat together on the lake. Towards the end of the book the man and brother in law travel to take down a barn to use the lumbar to rebuild the house. The wife could have been an artist and built the house to her wishes. With large windows facing the lake"