“Island problems,” sighs Jon Mooallem, as we behold the shuttered coffee counter at Town and Country Market, just down the way from the ferry terminal in Eagle Harbor. It’s a May afternoon, the weather teetering coyly between pleasant and chilly, and Mooallem’s third book is coming out today. Serious Face is a collection of essays written mostly for New York Times Magazine, where he has been a regular contributor since 2006.
Our bid for hot beverages foiled, we grab kombuchas and proceed down a sloping sidewalk toward the shoreline, chatting about the “hashtag Island Life,” as Mooallem referred to it archly in a text earlier that
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