About Grace

About Grace
Anthony Doerr

About Grace is the brilliant debut novel from Anthony Doerr, author of Pulitzer Prize-winning All The Light We Cannot See.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…

About Grace

Anthony Doerr

Copyright (#ulink_5fbadb35-525e-53ac-a331-48a639bdb97b)

This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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First published in Great Britain by Fourth Estate in 2005

Copyright © Anthony Doerr 2005

Extract from All the Light We Cannot See © Anthony Doerr 2014

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Dedication (#ulink_4af544cc-dc36-57f7-a7f1-ad4268d141d6)

for my mother and father

Epigraph (#ulink_1d7bff7b-5c41-511b-a23a-4b2535345016)

There must be some definite cause why, whenever snow begins to fall, its initial formation invariably displays the shape of a six-cornered starlet. For if it happens by chance, why do they not fall just as well with five corners or with seven?…Who carved the nucleus, before it fell, into six horns of ice?

From “On the Six-Cornered Snowflake,” by Johannes Kepler, 1610

Contents

Cover (#ub25ba6d8-6a6c-58f6-a904-c1f2086874e6)

Title Page (#u2b787df5-c618-5310-aff0-22d0fae15a80)

Copyright (#u272f636a-5abf-5ff6-8d0a-de88b14a7ac2)

Dedication (#uea7d9d5e-eb73-5b6b-9dd8-84624487c1b5)

Epigraph (#u9a612477-e3d0-5cc1-a6c9-a8976861c9dd)

Book One (#ufe6583ea-5a40-55bb-bdfc-f979f14acda7)

Chapter 1 (#ud9c10d26-64a7-5d12-a7fb-b4538be7830a)

Chapter 2 (#ufc3ef7d4-2323-58e9-a585-8ba35f1f34a6)

Chapter 3 (#u8469cad6-ba0b-5804-b403-446dfc5ea05e)

Chapter 4 (#u5c735c2a-ccb5-585c-b7ff-78cdc904fc2b)

Chapter 5 (#u6f060e01-471f-587a-b149-a53dddd35297)

Chapter 6 (#u0c564a1a-f799-5840-991e-1b881c167f9a)

Chapter 7 (#u3642bff5-c6bc-5a3b-ac3f-b6308184b6ce)

Chapter 8 (#u3d817aec-b772-5545-9e47-a0e212e5db52)

Chapter 9 (#udfc2c0f2-f344-5963-a89d-d63d83183589)

Chapter 10 (#u70c72107-fc9f-5edf-baaa-bd532d260882)

Chapter 11 (#ub31b1158-470a-50d3-b3d8-4776490a1a65)

Chapter 12 (#u044afbc1-078e-501c-b892-a8aa705c9a23)

Chapter 13 (#u0a170064-4882-5215-83df-fce91eaec2c5)

Chapter 14 (#u690f5c19-40f1-5d0d-9319-cf6d3b58f939)

Chapter 15 (#u83bb50d8-6869-5bb7-ba7c-d57656536c88)

Book Two (#u5d42ad66-0b2a-5592-875b-12df128cccdd)