Land Of Love And Drowning: A Novel

"Yanique spins a series of seductive tales covering six decades and three generations living in the Virgin Islands in her first novel, which draws upon her own family history. The cast includes legendary ship’s captain Owen Arthur Bradshaw of St. Thomas; his wife, Antoinette, who comes from a coral island known as “the drowned land”; and his mistress, Rebekah, whose child sets in motion a primordial curse. “Men who spend their lives on water understand that magic is real,” Yanique writes, as she invokes her own mystical tale."