{"product_id":"this-other-edenbooks","title":"This Other Eden","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted, Booker Prize and National Book Award for Fiction \u003cbr\u003eFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eTinkers\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 communities. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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 on Apple Island, with an eccentric, diverse band of neighbours: a pair of sisters raising three Penobscot orphans; Theophilus and Candace Lark and their nocturnal brood; and the prophetic Zachary Hand to God Proverbs, a Civil War veteran who lives in a hollow tree. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen comes the intrusion of “civilization”: eugenics-minded state officials decide to “cleanse” the island, and a missionary-schoolteacher selects one light-skinned boy to save. The rest will be left to succumb to institutions or cast themselves on the waters in a new Noah’s Ark.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn prose of transcendent beauty and power, Paul Harding has written a mesmerizing story that explores the hopes, the dreams, and the resilience of those perceived not to fit in a world brutally intolerant of difference.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harding, Paul","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Adult Fiction)","offer_id":44264220066016,"sku":"","price":15.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/files\/BNCImageAPI_2e779d9d-5a61-49d5-ad95-32d91c73f8a5.jpg?v=1697644597","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/this-other-edenbooks","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}