Finalist, Booker Prize and National Book Award for Fiction
Longlisted, Dublin Literary Award
One of Barack Obamaâs 15 favorite books of 2023 ⢠A New Yorker Best Books of 2023 ⢠An NPR 2023 âBook We Loveâ Pick and Top 10 Book of 2023 ⢠One of Timeâs 100 Must-Read Books of 2023 ⢠One of the New York Timesâs 100 Notable Books of 2023 and Best Historical Fiction of 2023 ⢠A Chicago Public Library Favorite Book of 2023 ⢠A Fresh Air Top 10 Best Book of 2023 ⢠A Publishers Weekly Best Fiction of 2023
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Tinkers, a novel inspired by the true story of Malaga Island, an isolated island off the coast of Maine that became one of the first racially integrated communities.
In 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife, Patience, discovered an island where they could make a life together. More than a century later, the Honeysâ descendants remain on Apple Island, with an eccentric, diverse band of neighbours: a pair of sisters raising three Penobscot orphans; Theophilus and Candace Lark and their nocturnal brood; and the prophetic Zachary Hand to God Proverbs, a Civil War veteran who lives in a hollow tree.
Then comes the intrusion of âcivilizationâ: eugenics-minded state officials decide to âcleanseâ the island, and a missionary-schoolteacher selects one light-skinned boy to save. The rest will be left to succumb to institutions or cast themselves on the waters in a new Noahâs Ark.
In prose of transcendent beauty and power, Paul Harding has written a mesmerizing story that explores the hopes, the dreams, and the resilience of those perceived not to fit in a world brutally intolerant of difference.
Categories:
- Literature & Fiction
- Genre Fiction
- Immigration
- Genre Fiction
Publisher : Goose Lane Editions
Author : Paul Harding
Language : English
Published :2023-03-07
Number Of Pages : 226
Binding : paperback
ISBN-10 : 1773103121
ISBN-13 : 9781773103129
Item weight : 0.73 lb
Dimensions : 0.94 in x 6.22 in x 8.94 in
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