num_pages: 238
description: A stunning work of fiction that brings us deep into the intertwined lives of a small seaside town where a little girl the daughter of a fisherman has gone missing.From the best-selling author of Brother I'm Dying and The Dew Breaker: a stunning new work of fiction that brings us deep into the intertwined lives of a small seaside town where a little girl the daughter of a fisherman has gone missing. Claire Limy Lanm - Claire of the Sea Light - is an enchanting child born into love and tragedy in Ville Rose Haiti. Claire's mother died in childbirth and on each of her birthdays Claire is taken by her father Nozias to visit her mother's grave. Nozias wonders if he should give away his young daughter to a local shopkeeper who lost a child of her own so that Claire can have a better life. But on the night of Claire's seventh birthday when at last he makes the wrenching decision to do so she disappears. As Nozias and others look for her painful secrets haunting memories and startling truths are unearthed among the community of men and women whose individual stories connect to Claire to her parents and to the town itself. Told with piercing lyricism and the economy of a fable Claire of the Sea Light is a tightly woven breathtaking tapestry that explores what it means to be a parent child neighbor lover and friend while revealing the mysterious bonds we share with the natural world and with one another. Embracing the magic and heartbreak of ordinary life it is Edwidge Danticat's most spellbinding astonishing book yet.
language: English
title: Claire of the Sea Light
publisher: Knopf