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Returning to the insular Galveston home town of her youth in the wake of a family tragedy, photographer Clare Porterfield is drawn into a century-old mystery involving a woman who drowned during the Hurricane of 1900.
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Toronto Star
A perceptive young woman, an art photographer by trade, returns to Galveston, Texas, looking for answers to questions from her past that haunt her present. The young woman’s Galveston isn’t the backwater of Jimmy Webb’s country song. Rather, she comes from the moneyed side of town, a
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neighbourhood that Black depicts in elegant and evocative style. Still, for all its wealth and grace, this Galveston has its dark secrets, and before the book is done, our young heroine sees all the old secrets blown away. Show Less
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2013