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This other Eden

Harding, Paul, 1967- author

Overview

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.

• Publisher: Hutchinson Heinemann
• Subject: Islands Fiction. / Missionaries Fiction. / Race relations Fiction. / Eugenics Fiction. / Racially mixed people Fiction. / Families Fiction. / Hurricanes Fiction. / Eugenics. / Îles Romans, nouvelles, etc. / Missionnaires Romans, nouvelles, etc. / Eugénisme Romans, nouvelles, etc. / Familles Romans, nouvelles, etc. / Ouragans Romans, nouvelles, etc. / Eugénisme. / Malaga Island (Sagadahoc County, Me.) Fiction. / Maine Malaga Island (Sagadahoc County)
• ISBN: 9781529152548, 1529152542

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