Description
On the island of Haiti, in the rose-shaped town of Ville Rose, a young girl named Claire navigates the fragile boundaries between family, loss, and belonging. As her story unfolds—shaped by her father’s hard-won love and the complicated grief that echoes through the community—other voices come forward, including a woman whose isolation is softened by a controversial radio show that turns private pain into public testimony. With lyrical, cinematic attention to landscape and language, the novel draws readers into a world where Kreyòl speech and vivid detail make every relationship feel lived-in and urgent. At its heart, this is a story about how communities remember, how identity is formed through care and adoption, and how storytelling can become both survival and resistance in the face of hardship.
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audiobook
Recorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing
Published Aug 15, 2013
1 pages
ISBN: 9781664418448
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First Published
2013
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat.