Lisa See always impresses. I read Island of Sea Women last year and sought out more of her work. This book is beautiful and captivating, I finished it in just a couple days. While some wish the end was more fleshed out I thought the ending was perfect and is has stuck with me since finishing the book. Sensitive readers should be warned that especially in the first half of the book there is quite a bit of violence including (non detailed spoiler ahead)

graphic depictions of infanticide and a character being mauled to death by an animal