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02286aam a2200241 i 4500 001 C32731C6C19811EE857C5B5120ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240202010025 008 230519t20242023nyu e 000 1 eng d 020 $a 1324074523 020 $a 9781324074526 035 $a (OCoLC)1379266437 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d YDX $d OCLCO $d NBO $d SILO 100 1 $a Harding, Paul, $d 1967- $e author. 245 10 $a This other Eden : $b a novel / $c Paul Harding. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b W. W. Norton & Company, Inc, $c 2024. 300 $a 221 pages ; $c 21 cm 520 $a "In 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife, Patience, discover an island where they can make a life together. Over a century later, the Honeys' descendants and a diverse group of neighbors are desperately poor, isolated, and often hungry, but nevertheless protected from the hostility awaiting them on the mainland. During the tumultuous summer of 1912, Matthew Diamond, a retired, idealistic but prejudiced schoolteacher-turned-missionary, disrupts the community's fragile balance through his efforts to educate its children. His presence attracts the attention of authorities on the mainland who, under the influence of the eugenics-thinking popular among progressives of the day, decide to forcibly evacuate the island, institutionalize its residents, and develop the island as a vacation destination. Beginning with a hurricane flood reminiscent of the story of Noah's Ark, the novel ends with yet another Ark. In prose of breathtaking beauty and power, Paul Harding brings to life an unforgettable cast of characters: Iris and Violet McDermott, sisters raising three orphaned Penobscot children; Theophilus and Candace Larks and their brood of vagabond children; the prophetic Zachary Hand to God Proverbs, a Civil War veteran who lives in a hollow tree; and more. A spellbinding story of resistance and survival, This Other Eden is an enduring testament to the struggle to preserve human dignity in the face of intolerance and injustice."--Amazon 941 $a 3 952 $l DPPE403 $d 20240611023857.0 952 $l VGPC334 $d 20240528010619.0 952 $l ORAX826 $d 20240202011402.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C32731C6C19811EE857C5B5120ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search