The Light Pirate: GMA Book Club Selection
Set in the near future, this hopeful story of survival and resilience follows Wanda--a luminous child born out of a devastating hurricane--as she navigates a rapidly changing world: A "symphony of beauty and heartbreak" (Associated Press). A Good Morning America Book Club pick - #1 Indie Next pick - LibraryReads pick - Book of the Month Club selection - Marie Claire #ReadWithMC book club selection - 2022 NPR "Book We Love" - New York Times Editors' Choice Florida is slipping away. As devastating weather patterns and rising sea levels wreak gradual havoc on the state's infrastructure, a powerful hurricane approaches a small town on the southeastern coast. Kirby Lowe, an electrical line worker, his pregnant wife, Frida, and their two sons, Flip and Lucas, prepare for the worst. When the boys go missing just before the hurricane hits, Kirby heads out into the high winds in search of his children. Left alone, Frida goes into premature labor and gives birth to an unusual child, Wanda, whom she names after the catastrophic storm that ushers her into a society closer to collapse than ever before. As Florida continues to unravel, Wanda grows. Moving from childhood to adulthood, adapting not only to the changing landscape, but also to the people who stayed behind in a place abandoned by civilization, Wanda loses family, gains community, and ultimately, seeks adventure, love, and purpose in a place remade by nature. Told in four parts--power, water, light, and time--The Light Pirate mirrors the rhythms of the elements and the sometimes quick, sometimes slow dissolution of the world as we know it. It is a meditation on the changes we would rather not see, the future we would rather not greet, and a call back to the beauty and violence of an untamable wilderness.
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Community Reviews
Well done!!!!! This apocalyptic novel REALLY was thought-provoking. The characters were solid with depth. Interesting story line all the way thru. Wanda was a survivalist. I didn’t like the ending nor do I understand if the light is “handed down” or mutated??? One of the better books I’ve read in 2023!
Overall a good read. I liked the concept but the fantasy portion could have been more relevant and some parts of the story were a little disjointed. The author decided to have the characters sporadically in and out of POV and sometimes some would just disappear. Many things were dragged out and others were presented abruptly. The relationship came out of nowhere but was still somehow predictable.
I enjoyed listening to this book on Audible.
This book is full of love (family, nature...), And full of deep feelings, what I mean is that I cried not just once but a lot of times while listening to it. It's also a lesson on life, the story of one's life. It makes you think about our future... It's not a quick pace book, sometimes I thought it was beginning to be long but then something came up...
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I would not recommend this book to people who are having a hard time in their lives or to people who are "in a negative moment in their life".
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