| Edition |
Unabridged. |
| Description |
5 audio discs (6 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
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CD audio |
| Note |
Title from container. |
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Compact discs. |
| Performer |
Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini. |
| Summary |
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 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. |
| Subject |
Islands -- Fiction.
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Eugenics -- Fiction.
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Race relations -- Fiction.
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Missionaries -- Fiction.
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FICTION / Small Town & Rural.
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FICTION / Sagas.
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FICTION / Literary.
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FICTION / African American / Historical.
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| Genre/Form |
Audiobooks.
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Historical fiction.
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| Added Author |
Ballerini, Edoardo, 1970- narrator.
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| ISBN |
9781705090237 (sound recording ; Blackstone Library CD) |
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1705090230 (sound recording ; Blackstone Library CD) |
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9798212514200 (sound recording ; Blackstone Retail CD) |
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