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A Marker To Measure Drift,New
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A New York Times Notable Booka Hypnotic, Spellbinding Novel Set In Greece And Africa, Where A Young Liberian Woman Reckons With A Haunted Past.On A Remote Island In The Aegean, Jacqueline Is Living Alone In A Cave Accessible Only At Low Tide. With Nothing To Protect Her From The Elements, And With The Fabric Between Herself And The World Around Her Increasingly Frayed, She Is Permeated By Sensory Experiences Of Remarkable Intensity: The Need For Shade In The Relentless Heat Of The Sunbaked Island; Hunger And The Occasional Bliss Of Release From It; The Exquisite Pleasure Of Diving Into The Sea. The Pressing Physical Realities Of The Moment Provide A Deeper Relief: The Euphoric Obliteration Of Memory And, With It, The Unspeakable Violence She Has Seen And From Which She Has Miraculously Escaped.Slowly, Irrepressibly, Images From A Life Before This Violence Begin To Resurface: The View Across Lush Gardens To A Different Sea; A Gold Rolex Glinting On Her Fathers Wrist; A Glass Of Gin In Her Mothers Best Crystal; An Adoring Younger Sister; A Family, In The Moment Before Their Fortunes Were Irrevocably Changed. Jacqueline Must Find The Strength To Contend With What She Has Survived Or Tip Forward Into Fullblown Madness.Visceral And Gripping, Extraordinary In Its Depiction Of Physical And Spiritual Hungers, Alexander Maksiks A Marker To Measure Drift Is A Novel About Ruin And Faith, Barbarism And Love, And The Devastating Memories That Contain The Power Both To Destroy Us And To Redeem Us.
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