Author: Edwidge Danticat

Seven-year old Claire is celebrating her birthday the night a local fisherman goes missing. The search for him brings the whole town to the beach. Claire’s mother died when she was born and Claire’s father finds a wet nurse in the village for her first few days. Claire went to live with relatives for three years and then came back to her father. On the night of her birthday the woman who nursed her finally agrees with the father, after he has asked many times over the years, that she will take the child. The rest of the book is more or less a collection of connecting short stories that revolve around various characters from the village.

This was a recommendation from a Facebook group I follow.

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