The first novel by Anthony Doerr, the highly acclaimed, multiple
award-winning author of Cloud Cuckoo Land, and the Pulitzer
Prize-winning #1 New York Times bestseller All the Light We Cannot
See, one of the most beautiful, wise, and compelling debuts of recent
times.
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.
Doerr's characters are full of grief and longing, but also replete with
grace. His compassion for human frailty is extraordinarily moving. In
luminous prose, he writes about the power and beauty of nature and about
the tiny miracles that transform our lives. About Grace is
heartbreaking, radiant, and astonishingly accomplished.
