#842 Drifter- Ellen St. John Mandel
Such a beautifully sad story. Zoe has lost her husband to cancer and she is lost. She sells belongings, gives up her apartment and leaves town. She is looking for the end of the world, so she goes north to the frozen lands above the arctic circle. She is looking for herself, or trying to lose herself. Maybe those are the same thing.
“Daylight lasted four hours, but the stars here were brighter than any she’d ever seen. She felt that she’s traveled beyond the edge of the world and landed on some colder planet farther from the sun.”
She doesn’t find herself, instead she see’s the ghost of her husband. She flees in fear of what she sees but she can’t return home. She spends the next few years traveling around Europe literally running from the memory of her dead husband. Chance and luck and fate follow her as well. Soon she must and will come face to face with the reality of her husbands death. It will be frightening but welcome.
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