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A hypnotic, spellbinding novel set in Greece and Africa, where a young Liberian woman reckons with a haunted past.... On a remote island in the Aegean, Jacqueline is living by themselves in a cave accessible only at low tide. With nothing at all to protect her from the elements, and with the fabric between herself and the globe around her progressively frayed, she is permeated by sensory experience of remarkable strength: the need for tone in the relentless heat of the sun-baked island; cravings for food and the occasional bliss of release from it; the superb pleasure of diving into the sea. The pressing physical realities of as soon as give a deeper comfort: the euphoric obliteration of memory and, with it, the unspeakable assault she has seen and from which she has miraculously escaped. Slowly, irrepressibly, images from a life before this assault start to resurface: the view across lush gardens to a different sea; a yellow metal Rolex glinting on her father's wrist; one glass of gin in her mother's best crystal; an adoring younger sister; a family group, in as soon as before their fortunes were irrevocably altered. Jacqueline must find the strength to cope with what she has survived or hint forwards into full-blown madness. Visceral and gripping, remarkable in its depiction of physical and religious hungers, Alexander Maksik's A Marker to Measure Drift is a novel about damage and faith, barbarism and love, and the destructive memories that contain the energy both to damage us also to redeem us.
