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Islanders by Alcalay, Ammiel is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Islanders about?
Enigmatic and multi-layered, Islanders is about finding ones own hard-won truth. A young mans indelible memories of the struggle to find intimacyformative experiences like the ebb and flow of friendships, love, and ordinary workaday lifeare viewed through a lens of nostalgic longing and hard-eyed realism as he attempts to come to terms with the past. Set during the cataclysm of the last years of the war in Vietnam, in a landscape that shifts between the bleak fishing towns of the Atlantic coast to the ruined cities of the Northeast, Islanders explores the classic theme of identitys intricate relationship to place.
Who reads Islanders?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Alcalay, Ammiel
- Publisher
- City Lights Books; City Lights Publishers
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780872865068
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities
- Rating
- 3.67 / 5 (9 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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