The Lightkeepers

In The Lightkeepers, we follow Miranda, a nature photographer who travels to the Farallon Islands, an exotic and dangerous archipelago off the coast of California, for a one year residency capturing the landscape Her only companions are the scientists studying there, odd and quirky refugees from the mainland living in rustic conditions They document the whales and seals around the island, the bold trio of sharks called the Sisters that hunt the surrounding waters, and the overwhelming, violent bird population.Shortly after her arrival, Miranda is assaulted by one of the island s inhabitants A few days later, her assailant is found dead, perhaps the result of an accident As the novel unfolds, Miranda gives witness to the natural wonders of this astonishing place She grapples with what has happened to her, deepens her connection to and her misgivings about her companions, and succumbs to the spell of the place nicknamed the Islands of the Dead And when violence occurs, each member of this strange community falls under suspicion.The Lightkeepers upends the traditional structure of a mystery novel an isolated environment, a limited group of characters who might not be trustworthy, a death that might not have been accidental, a balance of discovery and action while also exploring wider themes of the natural world, the power of loss, and the essence of recovery It is a luminous debut novel from a talented and provocative writer. Download The Lightkeepers – kino-fada.fr There is a wonderful violence to the act of photography The camera is a potent thing, slicing an image away from the landscape and pinning it to a sheet of film When I choose a segment of horizon to capture, I might as well be an elephant seal hunting an octopus The shutter clicks Every boulder, wave, and curl of cloud included in the snapshot is severed irrevocably from what is not included The frame is as sharp as a knife The image is ripped from the surface of the world Miranda has There is a wonderful violence to the act of photography The camera is a potent thing, slicing an image away from the landscape and pinning it to a sheet of film When I choose a segment of horizon to capture, I might as well be an elephant seal hunting an octopus The shutter clicks Every boulder, wave, and curl of cloud included in the snapshot is severed irrevocably from what is not included The frame is as sha...This novel is absolutely terrificuniqueand utterly engrossing THIS REVIEW IS SAFEI have no spoilers and even less details than blurbs I ve read Let this book surprise you I promise to share just the set upI m flabbergasted by the number of outstanding debut novels I ve read recentlyto a point where some of the old fart experienced authors might want to take a lesson kidding I m not here to offend I m here to SCREAM SHOUT CHEER and PRAISE Abby Geni s first This novel is absolutely terrificuniqueand utterly engrossing THIS REVIEW IS SAFEI have no spoilers and even less details than blurbs I ve read Let this book surprise you I promise to share just the set upI m flabbergasted by the number of outstanding debut novels I ve read recentlyto a point where some of the old fart experienced authors might want to take a lesson kidding I m not here to offend I m here to SCREAM SHOUT CHEER and PRAISE Abby Geni s first novel The Lightkeepers takes place on an island off the coast of California The island can be dangerous It had once been called the Islands of the Dead The archipelago is a collection of miniature islets, Southeast Farallon is the only oneof the b...I was fourteen years old At the front of the room, there was a gleaming mound, half obscured by flowers your coffin I knew what was in that coffin From that time on, Miranda would write letters to her mother as a way to keep her close She wrote out her days activities, what she thought and felt about her daily events, and other ideas that came to her during the day As soon as she could, Miranda began traveling the world deserts, ...Six biologists live on Farralon Island, an island thirty miles west of San Francisco Miranda, a nature photographer who has traveled the world is finally approved to spend the next year in this dangerous and often violent place Here she will encounter violence by the natural setting, sharks, whales, sea lions, seagulls, which I will never look at in the same way again but also physical violen...Miranda is nature photographer who has traveled all over the world, and her assignment, this time, is on the Farallon Islands, outside of the coast of California She is there to stay for 1 year The only other people on the island are scientists studying the fish and bird population around and on the island Through letters to her deceased mother, we get the full story about what happens during the year.This book took me by surprise I started to read this book a while ago, couldn t get into Miranda is nature photographer who has traveled all over the world, and her assignment, this time, is on the Farallon Islands, outside of the coast of California She is there to stay for 1 year The only other people on the island are scientists studying the fish and bird population around and on the island Through letters to her deceased mother, we get the full story about what happens during the year.This book took me by surprise I started to read this book a while ago, couldn t get into it Only managed a couple of pages Picked up where I left the other day and the story just floored me it s not a very cheerful story, but it s captivating.I think that reading a book through letters is an interesting choice, and it gave the book a very special way of retelling what happened on the island For one thing, Miranda is writing letters to her mother that did when she was a teenager ...This book failed me totally It is set on Southeast Farallon Island, one of a group of islands, thirty miles west of San Francisco The islands are a National Wildlife Refuge The only inhabitants are researcher stationed on this one island The island is closed to the public This is a fictional mystery story and nature writing combined Nature is both a tough battle for survival and filled with beauty and wonder I saw no beauty in this book only the ceaseless struggle The central character This book failed me totally It is set on Southeast Farallon Island, one of a group of islands, thirty miles west of San Francisco The islands are a National Wildlife Refuge The only inhabitants are researcher stationed on this one island The island is closed to the public This is a fictional mystery story and nature writing combined Nature is both a tough battle for survival and filled with beauty and wonder I saw no beauty in this book only the ceaseless struggle The central character t...4.0 STARSSweet Abby Genis debut novel The Lightkeepers began as a three star read that blossomed into a heartfelt four star surge of satisfaction when all the pieces so exquisitely fell into place in the final chapter and the epilogue Ive never read a book where the epilogue so neatly and conclusively brought a story to its close Miranda is an accomplished nature photographer bitten by wanderlust when she was fourteen From arctic cold to jungle heat, she has traveled the worl...The Lightkeepers is a really excellent novel My library has it in the mystery section, and while there is some of that, it is not really a mystery in the traditional sense.The main character is Miranda, a nature photographer, who arrives on the desolate and remote Farallon islands, thirty miles off the coast of California Already living there are six biologists who study the wildlife year round They all live in pretty primitive circumstances, all of ...Abby Geni, I am a fan.Fabulous debut novel Read during a couple of grey and fogging sleet days this book responded in both atmosphere and heaviness of cold damp air.The placement is within a group of 6 biologists on the Farallon granite peaks that are 30 miles West of S.F in the ocean Miranda is the photographer come to stay a year and catch the sublime multitudes of nature that live on and surround those small and dangerous granite islets She s not whole piece in emotion or self identity Abby Geni, I am a fan.Fabulous debut novel Read during a couple of grey and fogging sleet days this book responded in both atmosphere and heaviness of cold damp air.The placement is within a group of 6 biologists on the Farallon granite peaks that are 30 miles West of S.F in the ocean Miranda is the photographer come to stay a year and catch the sublime multitudes of nature that live on and surround those small and dangerous granite islets She s not whole piece in emotion or self identity A reader may grab that immediately from the get go From the second page you are pulled into the ending too I... To remember is to rewrite To photograph is to replace The only reliable memories, I suppose, are the ones that have been forgotten They are the dark rooms of the mind Unopened, untouched, and uncorrupted.There is something utterly terrifying, yet strangely alluring to being in complete and desolate isolation If this is a thought that is familiar, or even just sounds interesting to you do yourself a great favor and pick this book up I sat on this review for a while, as I struggle to putTo remember is to rewrite To photograph is to replace The only reliable memories, I suppose, are the ones that have been forgotten They are the dark rooms of the mind Unopened, untouched, and uncorrupted There is something utterly terrifying, yet strangely alluring to being in complete and desolate isolation If this is a thought that is familiar, or even just sounds interesting to you do yourself a great favor and pick this...

• English
• 26 April 2018
Abby Geni
• Hardcover
• 358 pages
• 1619026007
• Abby Geni
• The Lightkeepers