Claire of the Sea Light

from Beamis12

Love the title of this book and the cover, even though I read it on my kindle I can see the cover on this site. This book was like a circular maze, where the prize is in the middle and you just follow in circular movements. It starts with a young seven yr. old Claire going missing from her villag...

from Cariola

Danticat's latest novel provides another moving portrait of life in a Haitian community. It begins and ends with the story of Claire Limyé Lanmé on her seventh birthday. As he has for each of her past birthdays, her widowed father Nozias considers giving his daughter to Gaëlle Lavaud, a seamstres...

from Ma_Washigeri

My first choice at the library after opening after lockdown. I love the slipping between creole and english with some french as well. Would love to try the audiobook to give me the Haitian sounds. The episodic structure of the book was enjoyable too. Haiti has/is suffering so much that the calmne...

from nyiper

A one day story told from all the different points of view so that you picked up the entire background leading up to the day in question, again, as it concerned each person's memory. This is perhaps a book that needed, for me, the written as well as the audio version. The reader, Robin Miles, is ...

from dchaikin

25. Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat reader: Robin Miles published: 2013 format: 7:04 Overdrive audio (~196 pages, 238 pages in hardcover) acquired: Library listened: Apr 30 - May 9 rating: 4 An audio I stumbled across, as it was available, this was also my first time reading Danticat ...