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\nSummary provided by the publisher:
\nOne summer night\, Louisa and her father take a walk on the breakwater. Her f ather is carrying a flashlight. He cannot swim. Later\, Louisa is found on the beach\, soaked to the skin\, barely alive. Her father is gone. She is ten years old.
\nLouisa is an only child of parents who have severe d themselves from the past. Her father\, Serk\, is Korean\, but was born a nd raised in Japan\; he lost touch with his family when they bought into t he promises of postwar Pyongyang and relocated to North Korea. Her America n mother\, Anne\, is estranged from her Midwestern family after a reckless adventure in her youth. And then there is Tobias\, Anne's illegitimate so n\, whose reappearance in their lives will have astonishing consequences.< /p>\n
But now it is just Anne and Louisa\, Louisa and Anne\, adrift and facing the challenges of ordinary life in the wake of great loss. United\, separated\, and also repelled by their mutual grief\, they attempt to mov e on. But they cannot escape the echoes of that night. What really happene d to Louisa's father?
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