EAN: 9780345803863

A MARKER TO MEASURE DRIFT - ALEXANDER MAKSIK KA...

A New York Times Notable Book In the aftermath of Charles Taylor's fallen regime  a young
Liberian woman named Jacqueline has fled to the Aegean island of Santorini. She lives in a cave
accessible only at low tide. During the day  she offers massages to tourists  battling her
hunger one or two euros at a time. Her pressing physical needs provide a deeper relief 
obliterating her memories of unspeakable violence. But slowly  the specters of her former life
resurface: her adoring younger sister  her unshakably proper mother  her father  who believed
in his president  her journalist lover  who knew that Taylor would be overthrown. Now
Jacqueline must face the ghosts that haunt her-or tip into full-blown madness. Hypnotic in its
depiction of physical and spiritual hungers  this is a novel about ruin  faith  and the
devastating memories can destroy and redeem us.

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