An eccentric professor relocates with his two children, a boy and a girl, to a gated island off the coast of Miami. The kids have come to the US to spend time with their father after a heated custody battle. But as the professor is embraced by a glittering social scene and his fun, innocent antics tip into recklessness, the children receive a very different kind of education. In this lush, sharply observed novel, an unnamed, unreliable narrator remembers her surreal stay on Key Biscayne, where nobody lives unless they have something to hide. As the narrator is gradually drawn into the island’s morally ambiguous world, putting her innocence at risk, she begins to overidentify with her father. She becomes not just witness but also accomplice to his erratic behavior, acquiescing to his efforts to isolate herself and her brother from their concerned mother, whose calls from Spain go unanswered.