This novel begins as the story of a young girl, Claire
Limye Lanme, (Claire of the Sea Light) but really the novel tells a story of
the intersecting lives of the inhabitants of her small Haitian village, Ville
Rose.
The chapters are definitely not in
chronological order, all characters are given their due. The reader may meet the characters as adults
but each person has a vivid back story so even less sympathetic villagers are
understood as the product of life in Haiti.
Knopf, 2013, 238 p.
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