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As it is on Earth by Wheelwright, Peter M. (Peter Matthiessen) is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Recipient of the 2013 PEN/Hemingway Honorable Mention for "Literary Excellence in Debut Fiction", and nominated for the 2013 Pushcart Prize. Four centuries after the Reformation Pilgrims sailed up the down-flowing watersheds of New England, Taylor Thatcher, irreverent scion of a fallen family of Maine Puritans, is still caught in the turbulence. In his errant attempts to escape from history, the young college professor is further unsettled by his growing attraction to Israeli student Miryam Bluehm as he is swept by Time through the "family thing" - from the tangled genetic and religious history of his New England parents to the redemptive birthday secret of Esther Fleur Noire Bishop, the Cajun-Passamaquoddy woman who raised him and his younger half-cousin/half-brother, Bingham. The landscapes, rivers, and tidal estuaries of Old New England and the Mayan Yucatan are also casualties of history in Thatcher's story of Deep Time and re-discovery of family on Columbus Day at a high-stakes gambling casino, rising in resurrection over the starlit bones of a once-vanquished Pequot Indian Tribe.

Who reads As it is on Earth?

Author

Wheelwright, Peter M. (Peter Matthiessen)

Publisher

Burlington, Vermont : Fomite

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781937677183

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

4.04 / 5 (23 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14