About Grace
By: Anthony Doerr
Publisher: Fourth estate; HarperPerennial; Fourth Estate Ltd
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 402
ISBN-13: 9780007200818; 9780007146970; 9781476789019; 9780007146994
Subjects: Psychic ability; Fiction
Description: David Winkler begins life in Anchorage, Alaska, a quiet boy drawn to the volatility of weather and obsessed with snow. Sometimes he sees things before they happen&#x2014;a man carrying a hatbox will be hit by a bus; Winkler will fall in love with a woman in a supermarket. When David dreams that his infant daughter will drown in a flood as he tries to save her, he comes undone. He travels thousands of miles, fleeing family, home, and the future itself, to deny the dream. On a Caribbean island, destitute, alone, and unsure if his child has survived or his wife can forgive him, David is sheltered by a couple with a daughter of their own. Ultimately it is she who will pull him back into the world, to search for the people he left behind.