The Clock of Heaven

By Day, Dian ISBN: 9780980882223 format: Paperback pages: 214 publisher: Inanna Publications pub. date: 2009-01-01

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The Clock of Heaven explores issues of identity and of hope through its protagonist, Esa Withrod, an intelligent, educated young woman who is also the unwanted child of dysfunctional parents. The only bright spot in Esas childhood was the three months she spent with her grandmother in a house by the sea (in the Maritimes) when she was seven years old. Now she is a young woman struggling over recent events in her personal lifea failed first relationship and resulting pregnancyas well as with the legacy of her desolate upbringing. Esa is an unusual characterextremely competent but socially withdrawn and unable to establish ordinary relationships with the people around her. Her childhood has prepared her to deal with the world with endurance and resilience, but not with joy. She remains mystified by kindness. Searching for that safe haven she knew as a child, she returns to her grandmothers house to find that it is not possible to go back. Through a spring and summer of traumatic events in what has been her familys homestead, she discovers the love of family, friendship, and the best of what people in a small community have to offer each other in times of difficulty.

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