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Finalist for the 2023 National Book Award Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker PrizeFrom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Tinkers, 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 towns in the Northeast.In 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey & his Irish wife, Patience, discover an island where they can make a life together. Over a century later, the Honeys’ descendants & a diverse group of neighbors are desperately poor, isolated, & often hungry, but nevertheless protected from the hostility awaiting them on the mainland.During the tumultuous summer of 1912, Matthew Diamond, a retired, idealistic but prejudiced schoolteacher-turned-missionary, disrupts the community’s fragile balance through his efforts to educate its children. His presence attracts the attention of authorities on the mainland who, under the influence of the eugenics-thinking popular among progressives of the day, decide to forcibly evacuate the island, institutionalize its residents, & develop the island as a vacation destination. Beginning with a hurricane flood reminiscent of the story of Noah’s Ark, the novel ends

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Author

Paul Harding - undifferentiated, Paul Harding, Paul Harding

Publisher

Norton & Company Limited, W. W.; W. W. Norton & Company

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9781324036302

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Historical Fiction, Historical

Rating

4.3 / 5 (595 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14