A Marker to Measure Drift
by Alexander Maksik
Buy on AmazonAlexander Maksik's electrifying novel tracks a woman's journey from the horrors of Charles Taylor's Liberia to abject poverty and self-exile on a Greek island, where she must grapple with a haunted past and find a way back into human society. On an island somewhere in the Aegean, Jacqueline, a young Liberian woman, veers between starvation and satiety, between the brutality of her past and the precarious uncertainty of her present in the aftermath of experiences so unspeakable that she prefers homeless numbness to the psychological confrontation she knows is inevitable.…
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"Also on my list is Alexander Maksik’s novel “A Marker to Measure Drift,” which is about a young Liberian woman with a mysterious past."
By the Book: Edwidge Danticat · nytimes.com