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Mar 11, 2022DeltaQueen50 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat is a short but complex story that consists of a series of linked stories set in a small town in Haiti, as she explores the nature of grief and the various forms it takes. The stories are like a…
Apr 15, 2020MillieBT rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Enjoyable read but different
Jan 15, 2020
book group? 238 pgs
Jul 24, 2018RogerDeBlanck rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Claire of the Sea Light is the type of unforgettable novel that pulls at the heartstrings and produces an almost unbearable degree of searing emotion. Claire Limye Lanme Faustin is the title character, and she is, of course, focal to the…
Jun 08, 2017
A seaside village in Haiti is the setting for this story of a life change for a young girl and her father and all the things that led up to it. Simple, lyrical, and a bit magical.
Jun 01, 2016rebmartin31 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Danticat shows us the beautiful, undetected, delicate, and heartbreaking connections she has skilfully built within a community and a nation. A story that builds in beauty, tragedy, and hope as it goes along. If possible, I recommend…
Nov 05, 2015uncommonreader rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
This is a wonderful, subtly written book of interconnected stories set in the village of Ville Rose in Haiti, pre-earthquake, although the earthquake is foreshadowed in the ominous cloud over the village. The lives of the people in the…
aisha65
Aug 11, 2014aisha65 rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
I have liked her other novels, but this one just didn't do it for me.
Jane60201
Feb 26, 2014Jane60201 rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
I have liked Edwidge Danticat's work a lot in the past but I was disappointed in this one.
Feb 21, 2014claireswazey rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
Maybe it's just me and my resistance to literary fiction. I find so much of it pretentious and boring. This book has been touted as the greatest thing since sliced bread but it's a basic and boring story. ****SPOILER…
gracindaisy
Feb 19, 2014gracindaisy rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
A girl loses her mother; a man loses his wife; a woman loses her daughter; a boy loses his friend, impregnates a maid and flees to Miami. All these characters become entwined in Ville Rose, Haiti. I must read more of Danticat!
rowanquincy
Jan 31, 2014rowanquincy rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
Loved the title and the cover, the book, not so much. It seemed so disjointed and I didn't really connect to any of the characters.
Jan 14, 2014
The author did a splendid job putting the many stories together in which they neatly folded into one. A story about the love of a father who had lost the love of his life at the same time a new love begin. A love so deep he was willing…
Crheneghan
Jan 05, 2014Crheneghan rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
The writing is beautiful, the story painful. I felt that Danticat captured and conveyed the essence of the island. This slim work took me awhile to read but held my imagination long afterward.
Sep 13, 2013ParnassusReads rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Claire of The Sea Light is an ensnaring, beautiful, and evocative novel by Hatian-American author Edwidge Danticat. I was immediately drawn into the narrative by the first paragraph, and did not put it down until I was done, four hours…