| Description |
221 pages ; 23 cm |
| Summary |
From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a profoundly moving story of an island refuge, and a community of outcasts living on borrowed time. A novel inspired by the true story of the once racially integrated Malaga Island off the coast of Maine, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Tinkers. 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 Honeys' descendants remain there, with an eccentric, diverse band of neighbors- a pair of sisters raising three Penobscot orphans; Theophilus and Candace Larks and their nocturnal brood; the prophetic Zachary Hand To God Proverbs, a Civil War veteran who carves Biblical images in a hollow tree. Then comes the intrusion of "civilization"- eugenics-minded state officials determine to cleanse" the island, and a missionary schoolteacher selects one light-skinned boy to save. The rest will succumb to the authorities' institutions or cast themselves on the waters in a new Noah's Ark. Full of lyricism and power, This Other Eden explores the hopes and dreams and resilience of those seen not to fit a world brutally intolerant of difference |
| Analysis |
US & CAN fiction |
| Notes |
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2023 |
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Eugenics -- Fiction
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Hurricanes -- Fiction
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Missionaries -- Fiction
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Race relations -- Fiction
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Malaga Island (Sagadahoc County, Me.) -- Fiction
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Maine -- Malaga Island (Sagadahoc County)
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| Genre/Form |
Historical fiction
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Fiction
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Historical fiction
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Historical fiction.
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| ISBN |
9781529152548 |
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1529152542 |
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