Problem
Claire of the Sea Light is rich with secrets: of paternity, of sexual identity, of crimes, of lies that unfold in the course of the narrative. How do the multiple voices of the book help withhold the truth, yet also expose it at key moments? In what cases does not knowing the entire truth of a situation-such Nozias's plan to have a vasectomy, Max Junior's love for Bernard, and Albert Vincent's for Claire Narcis-hurt or protect the person keeping the secret, and the person from whom the truth is kept?