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A Marker to Measure Drift

A Marker to Measure Drift

Maksik, Alexander

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ISBN10: 0345803868
ISBN13: 9780345803863
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Jun 3 2014
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.23 Depth: 8.19
Language: English
Now The Major Motion Picture DRIFT Starring Cynthia Erivo and Alia Shawkat - A New York Times Notable Book - Hypnotic in its depiction of physical and spiritual hungers, this is a novel about ruin, faith, and the devastating memories that can destroy and redeem us.

Immensely powerful. . . . Beautifully written. . . . Jacqueline is a mesmerizing heroine. --The Boston Globe

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.

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