Then she finds something unexpected: a four-year-old boy washes up on the shore, his dreadlocked hair matted with shells. Now when she has a hot flash and feels a tingling in her hands, she knows it’s a lost object calling to her. The second drama: she’s starting menopause. First is the death of her father, who raised her alone until a pregnant Calamity rejected him when she was sixteen years old. Calamity, a woman as contrary as the tides around her Caribbean island home, is confronting two of life’s biggest dramas. When objects begin appearing out of nowhere, Calamity knows that the special gift she has not felt since childhood has returned-her ability to find lost things. Followed by an entire grove of cashew trees. Then, a blue and white dish she hasn’t seen in years. First it’s her mother’s missing gold brooch.
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