This Other Eden

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Publication Year:
2023

ISBN-13: 9781773103136

<p><b>Finalist, Booker Prize and National Book Award for Fiction <br>Longlisted, Dublin Literary Award<br><br>One of Barack Obama&#8217;s 15 favorite books of 2023 &#8226; A <i>New Yorker</i> Best Books of 2023 &#8226; An NPR 2023 &#8220;Book We Love&#8221; Pick and Top 10 Book of 2023 &#8226; One of <i>Time</i>&#8217;s 100 Must-Read Books of 2023 &#8226; One of the <i>New York Times</i>&#8217;s 100 Notable Books of 2023 and Best Historical Fiction of 2023 &#8226; A Chicago Public Library Favorite Book of 2023 &#8226; A Fresh Air Top 10 Best Book of 2023 &#8226; A <i>Publishers Weekly</i> Best Fiction of 2023 <br><br>From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of <i>Tinkers</i>, 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. </b></p><p>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&#8217; 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. </p><p>Then comes the intrusion of &#8220;civilization&#8221;: eugenics-minded state officials decide to &#8220;cleanse&#8221; 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&#8217;s Ark.</p><p>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.</p>