About Grace is the first novel from Boise, Idaho based author, Anthony Doerr. About Grace has the same writing skill level but the art of storytelling is horribly missing.

He previously published a collection of short stories, The Shell Collector , which were both moving and gorgeous. David's baby daughter, Grace, is born, and as babies tend to do, she changes his life in completely unexpected ways. David Winkler is a man who has strange and vivid, prophetic dreams. About Grace features vastly different subject matter but still has Doerr’s sensitivity, otherworldliness and it’s a book that utterly absorbs you into its world. Its protagonist’s loneliness, regret, and guilt are painfully palpable, and go a … About Grace has moments of brilliance but I came away feeling as cold as the prevalent snow obsession of this book. One of the qualities of the stories contained in The Shell Collector , i.e., each story's deep connection to the natural world in which it takes place, actually becomes one of the chief weaknesses … Other times, it’s more sinister. But it’s much too long, and is significantly marred by its climactic momentum toward a reconciliation that simply isn’t very credible.

I found the book to be excrutiatingly repetitive and slow, and the main character's life to be sublimely depressing.

Audience Reviews for Grace May 02, 2015 Okay-ish horror flick Grace knows what buttons to press but just can't seem to get a good grasp on its …

About Grace possesses a seductive symbolic intensity, and abounds with gorgeous descriptions and metaphors (“The sea teething” on a coral reef; “the million distant candles of the stars”). As a solitary … Sometimes the dreams are harmless – he will see the overhead locker on an airplane come open and then it happens.