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Author Yanique, Tiphanie.

Title Land of love and drowning / by Tiphanie Yanique.

Publication Info. Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, 2014.

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Location Call No. Status
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  LP F YANIQUE    Check Shelf
Edition Large print edition.
Description 579 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Series Thorndike Press large print core
Summary " 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.
Subject Magic -- Fiction.
African Americans -- Fiction.
African American families -- Fiction.
Saint Thomas (United States Virgin Islands : Island) -- Fiction.
Large type books.
African American families. (OCoLC)fst00799152
African Americans. (OCoLC)fst00799558
Large type books. (OCoLC)fst00992678
Magic. (OCoLC)fst01005468
United States Virgin Islands -- Saint Thomas. (OCoLC)fst01861793
Genre/Form Magic realist fiction.
Historical fiction.
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
ISBN 9781410472786 (hardcover)
1410472787 (hardcover)
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