One Station Away

From the critically acclaimed Olaf Olafsson an intimate yet sweeping story of a New York neurologist and the three women who change his lifeAn overlooked pianist who finally receives fraught success after decades of disappointment. An elusive dancer whose untimely death her fiancé is desperate to untangle. A mysterious patient who is comatose after a violent accident. These are the three women who animate Olaf Olafsson’s brilliantly rendered One Station Away. Magnus a New York neurologist—son to one lover to another and doctor to a third—is the thread that binds these women’s stories together as he navigates relationships defined by compromise and misunderstanding guilt and forgiveness and most of all by an obsessive attempt to communicate—to understand and to be understood to love and to be loved. A deeply affecting family tale a heart-rending love story that spans the globe and a suspenseful drama at the edge of the mystery of life and death One Station Away is a profoundly moving story of memory identity and misconnection a novel of haunting power and lasting insight.