{"product_id":"this-other-eden","title":"This Other Eden","description":"\u003cp\u003eFinalist, Booker Prize\u003cbr\u003eFinalist, National Book Award for Fiction\u003cbr\u003eFinalist, Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award\u003cbr\u003eShortlisted, Inside Literary Prize\u003cbr\u003eLonglisted, Dublin Literary Award\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of Barack Obama’s 15 favorite books of 2023 • A New Yorker Best Books of 2023 • An NPR 2023 “Book We Love” Pick and Top 10 Book of 2023 • One of Time’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2023 • One of the New York Times’s 100 Notable Books of 2023 and Best Historical Fiction of 2023 • A Chicago Public Library Favorite Book of 2023 • A Fresh Air Top 10 Best Book of 2023 • A Publishers Weekly Best Fiction of 2023\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Tinkers, a novel inspired by the true story of Malaga Island, an isolated island off the coast of Maine that became one of the first racially integrated communities.\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 on Apple Island, with an eccentric, diverse band of neighbours: a pair of sisters raising three Penobscot orphans; Theophilus and Candace Lark and their nocturnal brood; and the prophetic Zachary Hand to God Proverbs, a Civil War veteran who lives in a hollow tree.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen comes the intrusion of “civilization”: eugenics-minded state officials decide to “cleanse” the island, and a missionary-schoolteacher selects one light-skinned boy to save. The rest will be left to succumb to institutions or cast themselves on the waters in a new Noah’s Ark.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn prose of transcendent beauty and power, Paul Harding has written a mesmerizing story that explores the hopes, the dreams, and the resilience of those perceived not to fit in a world brutally intolerant of difference.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Paul Harding","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45292853362885,"sku":"9781773103129","price":14.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/0480\/1477\/files\/9781773103129.jpg?v=1762385943","url":"https:\/\/www.bloominsallysusedbooks.com\/products\/this-other-eden","provider":"Bloomin’ Sally’s Used Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}