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David Winkler begins life in Anchorage, Alaska, a quiet boy drawn to the volatility of the 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 spill while 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 uncertain whether his child survived or his wife might forget him, David is supported by a couple with their own daughter. 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 filled 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.
When Anthony Doerr's The Shell Collector was published in 2002, the Los Angeles Times called his stories "as close to failing as any writer—young or rarely experienced—could wish." He won the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Discover Prize, Princeton's Hodder Fellowship, and two O. Henrys, and shared the Young Lions Award. Now he has written one of the most beautiful, wise, and compelling first novels of recent times.
