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Burning the Sea: A Novel |
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This complex, mesmerizing first novel is both a traveler's tale and a lament for the home left behind. In the case of Michelle, a young American, her childhood home is barely remembered. But even when her body was sitting at the dinner table, her mind wandered: "I never knew when I was doing it. I tried to be my own jailer, but my mind was too quick for me. It slipped out between breaths, and I never knew it had gone until someone called to me from far away to come back and answer for my mind's behavior." What propels her is a search for a truer origin, a spiral path that will take her to the Dominican Republic, where her grandfather once owned a dilapidated house. On her way, she falls in with Tollimi, a political worker with a gift for disguising himself, for slipping the bonds of identity, that is even better-developed than Michelle's. Readers whose interest in the West Indies and Caribbean is stirred by Burning the Sea will find it makes a brilliant--and equally well-written--companion volume to Nelly Rosario's novel of Dominican family life, Song of the Water Saints. --Regina Marler
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