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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Beautiful Story.By J. HarrisI really like Edwidge Danticat. Her voice, her use of language, just pulls me in to the story. And when the story is over, I always feel a little bereft. Claire of the Sea Light is the story of Claire, told through the stories of those around her. I loved how the story began with Claire's 7th birthday and then moved backward through time to her birth and then circled back to her 7th birthday again. I especially loved the images of waves and animals and events in the sea that were used to illustrate stories of love, birth, death and loss. There really is something different about the relationship of island people to the sea."The other girls didn't always like this song because it was not a real wonn song. It was a fisherman's song. Although the melody was cheerful, the words were sad. You never got back things that fell into the sea. She was surprised that the granmoun, the adults, were not singing this song all day long. So much had fallen into the sea. Hats fell into the sea. Hearts fell into the sea. So much had fallen into the sea."1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Short Stories Packaged as a NovelBy W.The Good: Claire of the Sea Light features Danticat's usual vivid, poetic prose. Characters are richly developed. The plot is nuanced and complex.The Bad: While presented as a novel, the stories work best as individual short stories. The thread that strings them together (Claire) is weak, contributing to what seems to be a gimmick in the construction of an unnecessarily convoluted narrative.As such, compared to its predecessors from the author, Claire of the Sea Light falls slightly short of expectations.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A delightful puzzleBy Dan'l Danehy-OakesAnother one selected for the at-work book club, this is something that I would never have found and read on my own and am quite grateful to have had it brought to my attention.The book begins and ends on the seventh birthday of Claire Limyè Lanmè Faustin, daughter of the fisherman Nozias Faustin, in the town of Ville Rose, a fictional town on Port-au-Prince bay, Haiti. In the stories in between, we are told enough about various inhabitants of Ville Rose to understand what happens on that birthday.Claire's mother died giving birth to her, and her birthday has always been the bittersweet visit to her grave. Others, many of higher class, are entangled with her destiny, and their stories all come together on this fateful evening.This is one of those books -- like Faulkner's THE SOUND AND THE FURY, Kim Stanley Robinson's ICEHENGE, and Le Guin's FOUR WAYS TO FORGIVENESS -- that are more than a collection of stories, but not a novel or a fix-up. (We badly need a word for such books, but I digress.) The order of the stories is important, not because of chronology, but because of the way Danticat chooses to disburse the information that will allow us to understand the choices Claire makes, and what they will mean, when we are finally told _her_ story.The environment of the stories is vividly, beautifully described, and the characters come to life in that environment. Danticat's style is lucid and her ear for dialog accurate. The dialog actually presents some difficulties, in that the characters often use terms of Haitian creole; my youthful study of French helped in some ways, but misled in others. It seems to be a lovely, complex language.Oh, and: this book was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, for what that's worth to anyone.

A New York Times Book Review and Washington Post Notable Book of the Year, an NPR "Great Read," a Christian Science Monitor Best Fiction Book, and a Library Journal Top BookJust as her father makes the wrenching decision to send her away for a chance at a better life, Claire Limyè Lanmè—Claire of the Sea Light—suddenly disappears. As the people of the Haitian seaside community of Ville Rose search for her, painful secrets, haunting memories, and startling truths are unearthed. In this stunning novel about intertwined lives, Edwidge Danticat crafts a tightly woven, breathtaking tapestry that explores the mysterious bonds we share—with the natural world and with one another.

From BooklistIn interlocking stories moving back and forth in time, Danticat weaves a beautifully rendered portrait of longing in the small fishing town of Ville Rose in Haiti. Seven-year-old Claire Faustin’s mother died giving birth to her. Each year, her father, Nozias, feels the wrenching need to earn more money than poor Ville Rose can provide and to find someone to care for Claire. Gaelle Lavaud, a fabric shop owner, is a possible mother for the orphaned child, but she is haunted by her own tragic losses. Bernard, who longs to be a journalist and create a radio show that reflects the gang violence of his neighborhood, is caught in the violence himself. Max Junior returns from Miami on a surreptitious mission to visit the girl he impregnated and left years ago and to remember an unrequited love. Louise George, the raspy voice behind a gossipy radio program, is having an affair with Max Senior, head of the local school, and teaches the ethereally beautiful Claire. Their stories and their lives flow beautifully one into another, all rendered in the luminous prose for which Danticat is known. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: The best-selling Danticat’s (Brother, I’m Dying, 2007) return to fiction after nine years is sure to be highly anticipated --Vanessa Bush “Fiercely beautiful. . . . Brims with enchantments and surprises.” —“Luminous. . . . Danticat’s determination to face both light and dark brings the story to life. But her skill as a writer makes the balancing act a pure pleasure to read. . . . [She] is a beautiful storyteller.” —The Miami Herald“Danticat has created a pulsing world. . . . On these pages, the human heart is laid open and the secret contents of its chambers revealed in all their beauty and agony. . . . Haunting.” —O, The Oprah Magazine “Hypnotic. . . . Danticat creates rich and varied interior lives for her characters. . . . Heartbreaking.” — Book “A revealing portrait that mixes a touch of magic with the tough reality of life in Haiti.” —NPR “Haunting. . . . Writing with lyrical economy and precision, Ms. Danticat recounts her characters’ stories in crystalline prose that underscores the parallels in their lives.” —The New York Times“Vivid and intensely personal. . . . Danticat has been fixing and unfixing her native country since the appearance of her first book. . . . She is a writer . . . inhabited, a writer dedicated to opening her reader’s eyes to something she keeps trying to see for herself.” —San Francisco Chronicle “The biggest questions of life flow from the pen of this brilliant novelist. In Claire of the Sea Light, Danticat folds the story into a package so preciously tight that we can tuck it in our hearts and keep it close and warm.” —Nikki Giovanni“[Has] the feel of a fairy tale. But its ethereal qualities are offset by its stark portrayal of life in small-town Haiti; the combination makes for a lovely book.” — New York magazine “Danticat’s language is unadorned, but she uses it to forge intricate connections. . . . The dexterity of her sympathy is an even match for her unflinching vision.” —“In a voice tuned to the frequency of sorrow, with a calmness that neither apologizes nor inflames, [Danticat] lays out the terrible choice that many in Haiti have faced: Keep a child in deepest poverty or offer the child to someone with better prospects. . . . A remarkably well-plotted combination of mystery and social critique.” —The Miami Herald“Danticat has a way of making small lives tell big stories. . . . The stories of the inhabitants of Ville Rose fold into one another in surprising ways; social barriers exist but are constantly transgressed—sometimes violently, sometimes with compassion and mutual understanding.” —Kaiama L. Glover, Public Books “[An] extraordinary talent in full flower . . . . There’s a Faulknerian quality to Claire of the Sea Light . . . showing how human stories and lives ramify through and across each other in ways both touching and tragic.” —The Huffington Post“Haunted by ghosts and grief, lifted by magic and love. . . . Danticat paints each of her characters and their town with vivid detail and lyrical language. . . . [Claire of the Sea Light] is lit with its own inextinguishable glow.” —Tampa Bay Times “It’s the core human struggles that make it impossible to put the novel down. . . . [Danticat] brilliantly sheds light on an array of human issues with sexuality, identity, politics, class. . . . A heartfelt journey.” —New York Daily News“Beautiful. . . . As usual, Danticat’s sentences are sedate, graceful and unpretentious.” —The Dallas Morning News “Masterful. . . . With Claire of the Sea Light, Danticat stuns us again.” —Harvard About the AuthorEdwidge Danticat is the author of numerous books, including Brother, I’m Dying, a National Book Critics Circle Award winner and National Book Award finalist; Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah Book Club selection; Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist; The Farming of Bones, an American Book Award winner; and The Dew Breaker, a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist and winner of the inaugural Story Prize. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and elsewhere. She lives in Miami.

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