The other eden. [online electronic book]
The other eden. [online electronic book]
By
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Harding, Paul, 1967-
Publication Date
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2023
Subject Term
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Electronic books.
Small town life -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Hurricanes -- Fiction.
Islands -- Fiction.
African Americans -- Fiction.
Race relations -- Fiction.
Racially mixed people -- Fiction.
Genre
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Historical fiction.
Summary
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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 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 "civilization": eugenics-minded state officials decide to "cleanse" 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 Noah's Ark.
Language
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English
ISBN
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9781773103136
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