In March of 1984, the fishing boat Wind Blown left Montauk Harbor on what should have been a routine offshore voyage. The four-man crew collided with a nor'easter, and neither the boat nor the bodies of the men were ever recovered. In this "evocative, well-researched, and compelling account" (Library Journal), Amanda Fairbanks seeks out the reasons why an event nearly four decades old remains so startlingly vivid in the minds of the locals, exploring how lasting grief can alter people's memories and turn into folklore.