{"id":64124,"date":"2023-01-30T03:05:39","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T03:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=64124"},"modified":"2023-01-30T03:05:40","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T03:05:40","slug":"this-other-eden-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=64124","title":{"rendered":"This Other Eden, A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"

This Other Eden, A Novel<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

W. W. Norton & Company<\/a>
\n2023-01-24
\n224 pages
\n6.3 x 9.4 in
\nHardcover ISBN: 978-1-324-03629-6<\/p>\n

Paul Harding<\/strong>, Director of the MFA in Creative Writing & Literature
\nState University of New York at Stony Brook<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

From the Pulitzer Prize\u2013winning author of Tinkers<\/em>, a novel inspired by the true story of Malaga Island<\/a>, an isolated island off the coast of Maine<\/a> that became one of the first racially integrated towns in the Northeast<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife, Patience, discover an island where they can make a life together. Over a century later, the Honeys\u2019 descendants and a diverse group of neighbors are desperately poor, isolated, and often hungry, but nevertheless protected from the hostility awaiting them on the mainland.<\/p>\n

During the tumultuous summer of 1912, Matthew Diamond, a retired, idealistic but prejudiced schoolteacher-turned-missionary, disrupts the community\u2019s 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, and develop the island as a vacation destination. Beginning with a hurricane flood reminiscent of the story of Noah\u2019s Ark<\/a>, the novel ends with yet another Ark.<\/p>\n

In prose of breathtaking beauty and power, Paul Harding brings to life an unforgettable cast of characters: Iris and Violet McDermott, sisters raising three orphaned Penobscot children; Theophilus and Candace Larks and their brood of vagabond children; the prophetic Zachary Hand to God Proverbs, a Civil War<\/a> veteran who lives in a hollow tree; and more. A spellbinding story of resistance and survival, This Other Eden<\/em> is an enduring testament to the struggle to preserve human dignity in the face of intolerance and injustice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This Other Eden, A Novel W. W. Norton & Company 2023-01-24 224 pages 6.3 x 9.4 in Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-324-03629-6 Paul Harding, Director of the MFA in Creative Writing & Literature State University of New York at Stony Brook From the Pulitzer Prize\u2013winning author of Tinkers, a novel inspired by the true story of Malaga […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,459,8,15,20],"tags":[2381,2379,33733,1300],"class_list":["post-64124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-history","category-media-archive","category-novels","category-usa","tag-maine","tag-malaga-island","tag-paul-harding","tag-w-w-norton-company"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64125,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64124\/revisions\/64125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}