This is the new story. Not a 19th-century castaway tale. Not a Hollywood fantasy. This is a modern, GPS-less, Instagram-free account of two millennials who traded a five-star Fiji cruise for a sun-scorched rock in the South Pacific. And somehow, against all logic, we found paradise not in the resort, but in the wreckage.
James Mitchell is a former high school teacher and current stay-at-home dad. He and his wife, Elena, are writing a memoir titled “The And: A Shipwrecked Marriage.” They have not been on a boat since.
But here is the real story. The one that doesn’t make the evening news.