EAN: 9780345803863

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A New York Times Notable Book 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. Hypnotic in its depiction of physical and spiritual hungers this is a novel about ruin faith and the devastating memories can destroy and redeem us.

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