What does it really mean to love another person? The question hovers like a persistent wisp of fog over the story of Martin Sloane, an Irish-born artist who creates intricate, object-filled boxes, and Jolene Iolas, the young American woman who finds herself drawn first to Martin Sloanes art and then to the man himself. The story of their relationship across two decades, and of Jolenes search for Martin Sloane when one day he disappears from their home without warning or explanation, is told in a novel that brilliantly and movingly explores the vagaries of love and friendship, the burdens of personal history, and the enigmatic power of art. The first book in Back Bays new program of publishing one work of quality fiction per season in trade paperback original format. A novel that will appeal to readers of such trade paperback original bestsellers as Penelope Fitzgeralds The Blue Flower, Jhumpa Lahiris Interpreter of Maladies, and Ahdaf Soueifs The Map of Love. Redhill drew inspiration from the work of Joseph Cornell, a fixture in the New York art world from the 1940s-1970s. Martin Sloane is already a critically acclaimed bestseller in Canada.