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About Grace

  • 520 pages · about 9 hours
  • First published 2004
  • 19 editions

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1 About this book

David Winkler begins life in Anchorage, Alaska, a quiet boy drawn to the volatility of weather and obsessed with snow. Sometimes he sees things before they happen—a man carrying a hatbox will be hit by a bus; Winkler will fall in love with a woman in a supermarket. When David dreams that his infant daughter will drown in a flood as he tries to save her, he comes undone.

He travels thousands of miles, fleeing family, home, and the future itself, to deny the dream. On a Caribbean island, destitute, alone, and unsure if his child has survived or his wife can forgive him, David is sheltered by a couple with a daughter of their own. Ultimately it is she who will pull him back into the world, to search for the people he left behind.

  • Separation (Psychology)
  • Caribbean area
  • Psychological fiction
  • Precognition
  • Fathers and daughters
  • Dreams
  • Psychic ability
  • Padres e hijas

2 About Anthony Doerr

Born 1973

Anthony Doerr is an American author of novels and short stories. He gained widespread recognition for his 2014 novel All the Light We Cannot See, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

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