This other Eden
Harding, Paul, 1967-2023
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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 there, with an eccentric, diverse band of neighbours: 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.
Main title:
This other Eden / Paul Harding.
Author:
Harding, Paul, 1967-, author
Imprint:
London : Hutchinson Heinemann, 2023.
Collation:
221 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9781529152548 (hbk)
Dewey class:
F813.6H
LC class:
PS3608.A72535
Local class:
FFTFIC
Language:
English
BRN:
3239162
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