Interval Ownership

Thirteen owners rotate through a beach house on Edisto Island, South Carolina. They share a kitchen, a pool, an ocean view, and a set of storage lockers that nobody can agree on. INTERVAL OWNERSHIP gives each owner a story. A singer-songwriter buries his mother and loses his father's approval in the same afternoon. A therapist buys back his favorite chair from a thrift shop and gives away the replacements to a passing kid on a bicycle. An old man asks, again and again, if the pool is public. A couple races back to the island to find a missing ring. Two college friends hunt fossils on a winter beach and meet a fisherman who turns out to be Jasper Johns. These are comic and melancholy stories about what happens when people pour their lives into a place they only partly own. Lane writes about marriage and money, fathers and sons, faith and skepticism, race and belonging, memory and erosion. The island endures. The owners come and go, and somebody always leaves the Old Bay seasoning open.