402 pages
English language
Published 2004 by Scribner.
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David Winkler begins life in Anchorage, Alaska, a quiet boy drawn to the volatility of 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 drown in a flood as 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 unsure if his child has survived or his wife can forgive him, David is sheltered by a couple with a daughter of their own. Ultimately it is she who will pull him back into the world, to search for the people he left behind.
Subjects
- Separation (Psychology) -- Fiction.
- Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.
- Runaway husbands -- Fiction.
- Precognition -- Fiction.
- Dreams -- Fiction.
- Caribbean Area -- Fiction.
- Alaska -- Fiction.