The Gracekeepers
A Novel
New York : Crown Publishers, [2015]
Format: Book
Edition: First American edition.
Description: 308 pages ; 22 cm
"As a Gracekeeper, Callanish administers shoreside burials, laying the dead to their final resting place deep in the depths of the ocean. Alone on her island, she has exiled herself to a life of tending watery graves as penance for a long-ago mistake that still haunts her. Meanwhile, North works as a circus performer with the Excalibur, a floating troupe of acrobats, clowns, dancers, and trainers who sail from one archipelago to the next, entertaining in exchange for sustenance. In a world divided between those inhabiting the mainland ('landlockers') and those who float on the sea ('damplings'), loneliness has become a way of life for North and Callanish, until a sudden storm offshore brings change to both their lives"--Amazon.com.
Subjects:
Circus performers -- Fiction.
Undertakers and undertaking -- Fiction.
Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Fiction.
Circus performers.
Funeral rites and ceremonies.
Undertakers and undertaking.
Circus performers -- Fiction.
Undertakers and undertaking -- Fiction.
Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Fiction.
Circus performers.
Funeral rites and ceremonies.
Undertakers and undertaking.
ISBN:
9780553446616 (hbk.)