She creates a new life for herself working as a cook on a huge container ship. One day, disaster hits, and Jonathan's business-and life-fall apart, so Vincent just disappears again. Vincent is bored at the big estate in Connecticut, where she swims every day in the infinity pool, so she spends many days in Manhattan, shopping and living a life of luxury. She ends up moving back East with him, where they act as a married couple (though they never actually marry). Vincent is bartending at Hotel Caiette when she first meets Jonathan, the wealthy owner of the hotel. When an ultra-luxury glass-walled hotel is built in their little hometown of Caiette, the two young women get jobs there and move back home. By the time she is seventeen, she is living on her own, in a tiny apartment with a friend. Her father travels for work, so Vincent goes to live with an aunt in Vancouver. When Vincent is fourteen years old, her mother takes a canoe out into the water and disappears, which drastically alters the course of Vincent's life. The novel centers around the life of a young woman named Vincent, who grows up on the remote tip of Vancouver Island, in the tiny, isolated town of Caiette. I was totally immersed in the story and never wanted it to end. My husband gave it to me for Christmas, and I devoured it last month. John Mandel released another novel after that, but as usual, it took me a while to read The Glass Hotel. I was a little late to the party (as usual) but once I read Station Eleven, I loved it (my review at the link).
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