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The Watery Part of the World
Michael Parker
Algonquin Books
May 2011
On Sale: April 26, 2011
272 pages
ISBN: 1565126823
EAN: 9781565126824
Hardcover
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Fiction Family Life
Michael Parker has created a wholly original world from two
known facts: (1) Theodosia Burr Alston, daughter of the
controversial vice president Aaron Burr, disappeared in 1813
while en route by schooner from South Carolina to New York;
and (2) in 1970, two elderly white women and one black man
were the last townspeople to leave a small barrier island
off the coast of North Carolina. In this fiction based on historical fact, Parker weaves a
tale of adventure and longing as he charts one hundred and
fifty years in the life and death of an island and its
inhabitants— the descendants of Theodosia Burr Alston and
those of the freed man whose family would be forever
tethered to hers. It’s a tale of pirates and slaves, treason and treasures,
madness and devotion, that takes place on a tiny island
battered by storms, infested with mosquitoes, and cut off
from the world—as difficult to get to as it is impossible to
leave for those who call it home. From Theodosia’s capture
at sea to the passionate lives of her
great-great-great-granddaughters to the tender story of the
black man who cares for them all his days, this is an
inspired novel about love, trust, and the often tortuous
bonds of family and community.
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