Turnaway

Somewhere between the Bronx shoreline and the tip of Manhattan is Turnaway, a heretofore uncharted island inhabited solely by an elderly German-Jewish doctor and his young ward, Elias Hutchinson, who fancies himself to be the last surviving descendant of a decimated Native American tribe. When a weekend sailor shipwrecks on their beach, this fanciful kingdom is subtly disrupted, altering its peaceful balance of man, nature, and dreams. In Jesse Browner's exquisite Turnaway, innocence and youth are explored in elegiac, poignant, and always surprising ways. When Elias travels to midtown, it is…