Land Of Love And Drowning: A Novel
by Tiphanie Yanique
Buy on Amazon"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 ...…
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"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."
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