Fairy tale

It’s true, what Mitchell’s window says. Life is a wonderful fairy tale.

Not all the time, maybe, but sometimes, and so many times on Nantucket.

This house on Fair Street is named Fairy Tale.

So many houses on the island have fairy tale names.

In Moon Shell Beach, when Clare and Lexi are children, they share a secret spot on the island, “their own fairy tale thicket, their fantasy world. They told no one else about the place. It was not just a place to them, it was a kind of reality, and a possession of a bond deeper than words could say.”