Land of love and drowning : a novel / Tiphanie Yanique.
" 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 an important ship sinks into the Caribbean Sea, just as the Virgin Islands are transferred from Danish to American rule. Orphaned by the sunk vessel 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. Wholly unique, with echoes of Toni Morrison, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and the author's own Caribbean family history, the story is told in a language and rhythm that evokes 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, prize-winning young writer"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781594488337 (hardback)
- ISBN: 1594488339 (hardback)
- Physical Description: 358 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2014.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-355). |
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Genre: | Historical fiction. Epic fiction. |
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- 11 of 11 copies available at SPARK Libraries.
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Albright Memorial Library | FICTION YANIQUE (Text) | 50686014718584 | Storage | Available | - |
Gettysburg Library | HIST FIC YANIQUE TIPHANIE (Text) | 35740634628119 | Historical Fiction | Available | - |
Huntingdon County Library | F YAN (Text) | 30298100245541 | Fiction | Available | - |
Indian Valley Public Library | Fiction Yanique (Text) | 39427102894276 | Fiction Room: Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Kaltreider-Benfer Library | Adults YAN Fiction (Text) | 34002001462833 | Adult Area | Available | - |
Lower Macungie Library | FIC YAN (Text) | 33400001220618 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Meyersdale Public Library | FIC YANIQUE (Text) | 30512000481950 | MEYM Fiction | Available | - |
Nancy Kay Holmes Branch Library | FICTION YANIQUE (Text) | 50686014984426 | Main Floor | Available | - |
Somerset County Library | F YANI (Text)
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35907001495105 | SOCM Fiction | Available | - |
Allentown Public Library | YANIQUE, TIPHANIE (Text) | 34455005954348 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |