![]() Nadia is convinced that if she can make it there, she will find her parents and freedom. ![]() ![]() As she grows, she adopts the name Nadia Stepan and dreams of travelling to the northern part of the world, where she can take refuge at Lighthouse Island, a vacation spot advertised on government-Ĭontrolled television. As a young girl, Raisa is abandoned by her parents and raised in orphanages and by foster families. The novel centres on the many transformations one woman undergoes as she struggles to stay alive in this difficult world. Earth is borderless, human activities are governed by the water shortage, and there is little joy for the average person. ![]() In Lighthouse Island, Jiles tells the story of a future society suffering from a severe lack of water. Poet, novelist, and memoirist Paulette Jiles stakes out new ground in her latest novel, eschewing her preferred mode of historical fiction in favour of literary dystopia. ![]()
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