Absolution Clare Wald Sparknotes

In seeking absolution, Clare Wald goes to great strengths and courage to come to terms with her past and finding forgiveness from her diseased family members, whom she blames herself for passing. In doing so, Clare creates as well as ruins relationships that are around her.
Within this novel, there are four different narrative streams. The “Sam” narrative goes into how Sam le Roux copes coming back to South Africa from England and how he comes to write Clare’s biography. The “Absolution” narrative is Clare’s upcoming novel. She speaks about the home invasion and about her experiences when Sam starts to write her biography. The “Clare” narrative is extracted from her journal and she speaks about her past experiences. She speaks about Laura’s disappearance as well as the death of her Sister and brother-in-law. The year narratives are from the young Sam le Roux’s memory as he was a young boy. He often does not trust his memories from when he was a young child, as he does not wish to remember them.
Clare wishes to be absolved for her failures by the people who are closest to her, such as her two children, Laura and Mark, as well as her sister, Nora. Within her personal journals and diary entries, Clare expresses how she feels about Laura’s disappearance as well as the deaths of her sister and brother-in-law. She feels as though she is responsible for it all and wishes to be absolved. The ghost of Laura haunts her in her home, which could either be a figment of her imagination or it could be a result of her sense of guilt. Clare feels that it is her duty to read through some or Laura’s old journals to try and get a better understanding of what Laura did for a living and why she could have disappeared. Clare becomes somewhat obsessed in trying o figure out her daughter’s last couple of days, and does not want to come to the conclusion that she may be