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The New Moons Arms
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In the bestselling tradition of Toni Morrison, Edwidge Danticat, and Alice Walker comes the breakthrough work by awardwinning author Nalo Hopkinson about the unexpected discovery of a mysterious orphaned child and the disruption it causes in the life of a Caribbean woman.First its her mothers missing gold brooch. Then, a blue and white dish she hasnt seen in years. Followed by an entire grove of cashew trees.When objects begin appearing out of nowhere, Calamity knows that the special gift she has not felt since childhood has returnedher ability to find lost things. Calamity, a woman as contrary as the tides around her Caribbean island home, is confronting two of lifes biggest dramas. First is the death of her father, who raised her alone until a pregnant Calamity rejected him when she was sixteen years old. The second drama: shes starting menopause. Now when she has a hot flash and feels a tingling in her hands, she knows its a lost object calling to her.Then she finds something unexpected: a fouryearold boy washes up on the shore, his dreadlocked hair matted with shells. Calamity decides to take the orphaned child into her care, which brings unexpected upheaval into her life and further strains her relationship with her adult daughter. Fostering this child will force her to confront all the memories of her own childhoodand the disappearance of her mother so many years before.
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