BilbaoNew YorkBilbaoOn a transatlantic flight between Bilbao and New York City, a fictional version of Kirmen Uribe recalls three generations of family historythe inspiration for the novel he wants to writeand ponders how the sea has shaped their stories. The day he knew he was going to die, our narrator's grandfather took his daughter in law to the Fine Arts Museum in Bilbao, the de facto capital of the Basque region of northern Spain, to show her a painting with ties