STILL COUNTING

For eighteen months, fisherman Hiroshi Takahashi has survived on a nameless island, marking a day with a shell and writing messages in a language lost to time. He no longer expects rescue. He only wants his family to know he lived.Four thousand miles away, a bottle washes onto the Oregon coast. Inside lies a burned, salt-damaged message—and proof that someone may still be waiting. A beachcomber, a...