Lighthousekeeping

Synopsis

Lighthousekeeping tells the tale of silver ("my mother called me silver. I was born part precious metal, part pirate. "), an orphaned girl who is taken in by blind mr. Pew, the mysterious and miraculously old keeper of a lighthouse on the scottish coast. Pew tells silver stories of babel dark, a nineteenth-century clergyman. Dark lived two lives: a public one mired in darkness and deceit and a private one bathed in the light of passionate love. For silver, dark's life becomes a map through her own darkness, into her own story, and, finally, into love.