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Hope Against All Hope in Haiti

April 21, 2014 by ElCicco Leave a Comment

Set in a small village in Haiti, Claire of the Sea Light is a novel about loss and hope. Ville Rose has a long history of poverty and hardship. A few prominent families run the town, the school and local businesses, but the vast majority of its inhabitants are poor. The novel begins and ends with a poor widowed fisherman named Nozias and his seven-year-old daughter Claire Limye Lanme — Claire of the Sea Light. Nozias’ wife Claire died giving birth, and Nozias has struggled […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Claire of the Sea Light, Edwidge Danticat, ElCicco, Haiti, poverty, ReadWomen2014

ElCicco's CBR6 Review No:13 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Claire of the Sea Light, Edwidge Danticat, ElCicco, Haiti, poverty, ReadWomen2014 ·
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