
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
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