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What the Waves Know A Novel

by Tamara Valentine
What the Waves Know A Novel

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ISBN10: 0062413856
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In the tradition of Sue Monk Kidd and Beth Hoffman comes a compelling debut novel about a young woman's quest to find herself—and her voice—on the island where she lost both.

The tiny state of Rhode Island is home to even tinier Tillings Island—which witnessed the biggest event of Izabella Rae Haywood's life. For it was there, on Iz's sixth birthday, that her father left...and took her voice with him.

Eight years later in the summer of 1974, Izs mother is through with social workers, psychiatrists and her daughter's silence. In one last attempt to return Izs voice, the motley pair board the ferry to Tillings in hopes that the journey will help Izabella heal herself by piecing together splintered memories of the day her words fled.

But heartbreak is a difficult puzzle to solve, and everyone in Tillings seems to know something Iz does not. Worse, each has an opinion about Izabella's dreamer of a father, the undercurrents of whose actions have spun so many lives off course.

Now, as the island's annual Yemayá festival prepares to celebrate the ties that bind mothers to children, lovers to each other, and humankind to the sea, Izabella must unravel the tangled threads of her own history and reclaim a voice gone silent…or risk losing herself—and any chance she may have for a future—to the past.

What the Waves Know is a moving, magical novel that asks us to consider the stories which tell the truth and the stories we tell ourselves.

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What the Waves Know is a beautiful, elegant book that dives deep into the heart of childhood, memory and voice. Izabella, our silent protagonist, will surely stay with you for a very long time, as if she were someone you once knew and loved. Jessica Anya Blau, national bestselling author of < i=""> The Summer of Naked Swim Parties <>

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ISBN:
9780062413857
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Publication date:
02/09/2016
Publisher:
WILLIAM MORROW & COMPANY INC
Pages:
352
Height:
1.00IN
Width:
5.20IN
Thickness:
.79
Author:
Tamara Valentine
Subject:
Literature-Coming of Age

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