This week at the Gilpin Library
by Larry Grieco, Librarian
There is a new book in the library by a young writer named Edwidge Danticat, who has written a number of previous books and whose novel, Brother, I’m Dying, won a National Book Critics Circle Award, and whose other books have each garnered either nominations or wins for a number of other American literary awards. Her new novel is Claire of the Sea Light and tells the story of a young girl on the island of Haiti. Claire’s mother died giving birth to her, and when Claire reaches her seventh birthday, her poor fisherman father has had to make the sad decision to give her to a local shopkeeper who lost a child of her own, to insure a better life for Claire. Sometime that day Claire disappears and is nowhere to be found. The entire town looks for her and “painful secrets, haunting memories, and startling truths are unearthed” among the community of men and women whose individual stories connect to Claire and to her parents. The New York Times Book Review:“Danticat’s calm clarity of vision takes on the resonance of folk art. Extraordinarily ambitious…Extraordinarily successful.”
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