About Grace
Registered by Hotfrog of Queanbeyan, New South Wales Australia on 8/26/2023
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
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About the Book
Beautifully written and compelling, About Grace is the brilliant debut novel from Anthony Doerr.
Growing up in Alaska, young David Winkler is crippled by his dreams. At nine, he dreams a man is decapitated by a passing truck on the path outside his family’s home. The next day, unable to prevent it, he witnesses an exact replay of his dream in real life. The premonitions keep coming, unstoppably. He sleepwalks during them, bringing catastrophe into his reach.
Then, as unstoppable as a vision, he falls in love, at the supermarket (exactly as he already dreamed) with Sandy. They flee south, landing in Ohio, where their daughter Grace is born. And then the visions of Grace’s death begin for Winkler, as their waterside home is inundated. Plagued by the same horrific images of Grace drowning, when the floods come, he cannot face his destiny and flees.
He beaches on a remote Caribbean island, where he works as a handyman, chipping away at his doubts and hopes, never knowing whether Grace survived the flood or met the doom he foretold. After two decades, he musters the strength to find out…
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About the Book
Beautifully written and compelling, About Grace is the brilliant debut novel from Anthony Doerr.
Growing up in Alaska, young David Winkler is crippled by his dreams. At nine, he dreams a man is decapitated by a passing truck on the path outside his family’s home. The next day, unable to prevent it, he witnesses an exact replay of his dream in real life. The premonitions keep coming, unstoppably. He sleepwalks during them, bringing catastrophe into his reach.
Then, as unstoppable as a vision, he falls in love, at the supermarket (exactly as he already dreamed) with Sandy. They flee south, landing in Ohio, where their daughter Grace is born. And then the visions of Grace’s death begin for Winkler, as their waterside home is inundated. Plagued by the same horrific images of Grace drowning, when the floods come, he cannot face his destiny and flees.
He beaches on a remote Caribbean island, where he works as a handyman, chipping away at his doubts and hopes, never knowing whether Grace survived the flood or met the doom he foretold. After two decades, he musters the strength to find out…
Journal Entry 2 by Hotfrog at Braddon, Australian Capital Territory Australia on Saturday, August 26, 2023
Released 1 yr ago (8/27/2023 UTC) at Braddon, Australian Capital Territory Australia
CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:
Releasing at Book Crossing meeting in Canberra today.
Journal Entry 3 by 
goldenwattle
at Civic, Australian Capital Territory Australia on Saturday, August 26, 2023
goldenwattle at Civic, Australian Capital Territory Australia on Saturday, August 26, 2023
Picked up at the Bookcrossing meet at the Central Social Club in Civic, ACT. Thank you.
Journal Entry 4 by goldenwattle at Blue Sky Cheese Book Exchange Fridge in Mendooran, New South Wales Australia on Sunday, June 16, 2024
goldenwattle at Blue Sky Cheese Book Exchange Fridge in Mendooran, New South Wales Australia on Sunday, June 16, 2024
Released 10 mos ago (6/16/2024 UTC) at Blue Sky Cheese Book Exchange Fridge in Mendooran, New South Wales Australia
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
Left in the book exchange in Mendooran, NSW.Enjoy😀👍, and it's really appreciated if you can please log this book to let previous readers know it has found a new reader, and where it travels to next. Then we can all follow its journey. Thank you 🙂.
To the finder, enjoy, and I hope you will write a journal entry so that previous readers will know that this book has been found (even anonymously). It is always a joy to find where it has gone. Once you've read this book, pass it on to a friend, or set it out "in the wild" for someone else to find as you did.
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