A Village of Vagabonds

An artist trades his comfortable life for a fishing village called Pont du Sable, and what he finds there changes everything he thought he wanted. The locals call it a 'lost hole of a village of sacré vagabonds,' but to him it's a revelation: morning light over the marshlands, the camaraderie of Madame Fontaine's café on market day, the frank humor of the butcher and blacksmith, the quiet authority of the mayor. This is a novel about what happens when a man stops striving and starts living, when simplicity becomes its own kind of ambition. Smith writes with affectionate precision about a world where everyone knows everyone, where secrets are traded over wine, and where the deepest adventure is learning to belong.