Ellen Block
Novelist
The Language of Sand
A Novel by Ellen Block
Luck –n: the force that operates for good or ill in a person's life, shaping events, circumstances, or opportunities. As
a lexicographer, Abigail Harker has always taken refuge in the meaning
of words. After a tragic twist of fate erases what she loves most, her life crumbles.
Abigail retreats to Chapel Isle, a secluded island on North Carolina’s Outer Banks. As caretaker of a run-down lighthouse, she hopes to redefine herself. But as a resident remarks, “If you came for normal, you came to the wrong place.”
For on Chapel Isle, no one can be neatly defined—from a scientific genius to the feuding fishermens' wives to a handsome hothead to the ghost said to be haunting the lighthouse, everyone is struggling to find meaning where meaning is lost.
When a series of mysterious crimes strikes the island, Abigail is forced to face her deepest fears if she is to save herself, her neighbors, and the new life she comes to cherish.
Abigail retreats to Chapel Isle, a secluded island on North Carolina’s Outer Banks. As caretaker of a run-down lighthouse, she hopes to redefine herself. But as a resident remarks, “If you came for normal, you came to the wrong place.”
For on Chapel Isle, no one can be neatly defined—from a scientific genius to the feuding fishermens' wives to a handsome hothead to the ghost said to be haunting the lighthouse, everyone is struggling to find meaning where meaning is lost.
When a series of mysterious crimes strikes the island, Abigail is forced to face her deepest fears if she is to save herself, her neighbors, and the new life she comes to cherish.
