{"product_id":"this-other-eden-by-paul-harding","title":"This Other Eden by Paul Harding","description":"\u003cp\u003eA novel inspired by the true story of the once racially integrated Malaga Island off the coast of Maine, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Tinkers.\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 there, with an eccentric, diverse band of neighbors: a pair of sisters raising three Penobscot orphans; Theophilus and Candace Larks and their nocturnal brood; the prophetic Zachary Hand To God Proverbs, a Civil War veteran who carves Biblical images in a hollow tree. Then comes the intrusion of “civilization”: eugenics-minded state officials determine to cleanse” the island, and a missionary schoolteacher selects one light-skinned boy to save. The rest will succumb to the authorities’ institutions or cast themselves on the waters in a new Noah’s Ark.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFull of lyricism and power, This Other Eden explores the hopes and dreams and resilience of those seen not to fit a world brutally intolerant of difference.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Catnap Books","offers":[{"title":"Used","offer_id":53622791241994,"sku":"9781529152548","price":9.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/4730\/2666\/files\/28912A04-2913-405D-9004-2A674EE700CD.jpg?v=1788443885","url":"https:\/\/catnapbooks.nl\/products\/this-other-eden-by-paul-harding","provider":"Catnap Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}