A Marker to Measure Drift (Paperback)

Alexander Maksik

ISBN 10: 0345803868 / ISBN 13: 9780345803863

Published by Random House USA Inc, New York, 2014

About this Item

Paperback. Now The Major Motion Picture DRIFT Starring Cynthia Erivo and Alia Shawkat A New York Times Notable Book Hypnotic in its depiction of physical and spiritual hungers, this is a novel about ruin, faith, and the devastating memories that can destroy and redeem us. Immensely powerful. . . . Beautifully written. . . . Jacqueline is a mesmerizing heroine. The Boston Globe In the aftermath of Charles Taylors fallen regime, a young Liberian woman named Jacqueline has fled to the Aegean island of Santorini. She lives in a cave accessible only at low tide. During the day, she offers massages to tourists, battling her hunger one or two euros at a time. Her pressing physical needs provide a deeper relief, obliterating her memories of unspeakable violence. But slowly, the specters of her former life resurface: her adoring younger sister; her unshakably proper mother; her father, who believed in his president; her journalist lover, who knew that Taylor would be overthrown. Now Jacqueline must face the ghosts that haunt heror tip into full-blown madness. An electrifying novel tracks a woman's journey from the horrors of Charles Taylor's Liberia to abject poverty and self-exile on a Greek island, where she must grapple with a haunted past and find a way back into human society. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Marker to Measure Drift (Paperback)
• Publisher: Random House USA Inc, New York
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0345803868
• ISBN 13: 9780345803863
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Now The Major Motion Picture DRIFT Starring Cynthia Erivo and Alia Shawkat - A New York Times Notable Book - Hypnotic in its depiction of physical and spiritual hungers, this is a novel about ruin, faith, and the devastating memories that can destroy and redeem us.

"Immensely powerful. . . . Beautifully written. . . . Jacqueline is a mesmerizing heroine." --The Boston Globe

In the aftermath of Charles Taylor's fallen regime, a young Liberian woman named Jacqueline has fled to the Aegean island of Santorini. She lives in a cave accessible only at low tide. During the day, she offers massages to tourists, battling her hunger one or two euros at a time. Her pressing physical needs provide a deeper relief, obliterating her memories of unspeakable violence. But slowly, the specters of her former life resurface: her adoring younger sister; her unshakably proper mother; her father, who believed in his president; her journalist lover, who knew that Taylor would be overthrown. Now Jacqueline must face the ghosts that haunt her--or tip into full-blown madness.

About the Author

Alexander Maksik is the author of the novels You Deserve Nothing and A Marker to Measure Drift. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Best American Nonrequired Reading, Harper's, Tin House, Harvard Review, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Condé Nast Traveler, Salon and Narrative, among other publications, and has been translated into more than a dozen languages. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he is the recipient of fellowships from the Truman Capote Literary Trust and The Corporation of Yaddo. He lives in New York City.