Description
On a Caribbean island where tides seem to carry both comfort and consequence, Calamity—stubborn, tender, and fiercely self-reliant—faces the grief of her father’s death while wrestling with the hunger for family she can’t quite name. When she finds a young, strange boy on the beach and chooses to take him in, she sets in motion a redemption story that tests her beliefs about love, responsibility, and the stories her community tells about the impossible. As the boy reveals himself as one of Cayaba’s fabled figures, Calamity must confront what she’s willing to sacrifice to protect him—and what it will cost her to become the kind of guardian she never planned to be. Blending mythic wonder with intimate emotional stakes, the novel explores themes of belonging, transformation, and the ways the past returns—sometimes as a blessing, sometimes as a reckoning—through Nalo Hopkinson’s vivid, lyrical storytelling.
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audiobook
Sound Library
Published Jan 1, 2007
ISBN: 0792747356
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First Published
2007
Language
eng
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