{"product_id":"this-other-eden","title":"This Other Eden","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a profoundly moving story of an island refuge, and a community of outcasts living on borrowed time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA novel inspired by the true story of the once racially integrated Malaga Island off the coast of Maine, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eTinkers\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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 there, with an eccentric, diverse band of neighbors: a pair of sisters raising three Penobscot orphans; Theophilus and Candace Larks and their nocturnal brood; the prophetic Zachary Hand To God Proverbs, a Civil War veteran who carves Biblical images in a hollow tree. Then comes the intrusion of \"civilization\": eugenics-minded state officials determine to cleanse\" the island, and a missionary schoolteacher selects one light-skinned boy to save. The rest will succumb to the authorities' institutions or cast themselves on the waters in a new Noah's Ark.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFull of lyricism and power, \u003ci\u003eThis Other Eden\u003c\/i\u003e explores the hopes and dreams and resilience of those seen not to fit a world brutally intolerant of difference.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41032068431906,"sku":"9781529152548","price":10.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0052\/0785\/1042\/products\/Copy-of-Book-Template-1424.jpg?v=1678915752","url":"https:\/\/petronella.pro\/products\/this-other-eden","provider":"Petronella's Gallery and Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}