Castle Nowhere

“I wish I was a tree,” says Jarvis Waring, deep in a wilderness where even the map-makers have left a hundred miles blank. Then, through the fog, a skiff shoots ashore—and its passenger says he comes from nowhere.

Constance Fenimore Woolson sets this tale on the remote northern shore of Lake Michigan, where pines, sand hills and empty waters seem to offer escape from the routes of ordinary life. Waring has wandered here to get lost, arguing with the Spirit of Discontent and congratulating himself on living like a bear. But when a strange old man arrives by boat, Waring’s solitude gives way to a mystery: the stranger says he is going “back there,” yet offers no explanation of where that is. What could “nowhere” mean to a man who has spent his life trying to find it?

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