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Riverhead
July 2014
On Sale: July 10, 2014
356 pages
ISBN: 1594488339
EAN: 9781594488337
Kindle: B00GGVGITE
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A major debut from an award-winning writer-an epic family
saga set against the magic and the rhythms of the Virgin
Islands. In the early 1900s, the Virgin Islands are transferred from
Danish to American rule, and an important ship sinks into
the Caribbean Sea. Orphaned by the shipwreck are two sisters
and their half brother, now faced with an uncertain identity
and future. Each of them is unusually beautiful, and each is
in possession of a particular magic that will either sink or
save them. Chronicling three generations of an island family from 1916
to the 1970s, Land of Love and Drowning is a novel of
love and magic, set against the emergence of Saint Thomas
into the modern world. Uniquely imagined, with echoes of
Toni Morrison, Gabriel García Márquez, and the author’s own
Caribbean family history, the story is told in a language
and rhythm that evoke an entire world and way of life and
love. Following the Bradshaw family through sixty years of
fathers and daughters, mothers and sons, love affairs,
curses, magical gifts, loyalties, births, deaths, and
triumphs, Land of Love and Drowning is a gorgeous,
vibrant debut by an exciting, prizewinning young writer.
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