This Other Eden by Paul Harding holiday Like Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street

Like Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street or Toni Morrison’s Sula

planning to venture out to the open seas in search of treasure

With all the powerful storytelling she brought to her award-winning debut

eleven-year-old Dorothy “Donkey” Zook

it is human nature to do two things: seek out meaningful human connection and respond to anonymous internet postings

This Other Eden by Paul Harding holiday Like Sinclair Lewis’s Main StreetIn 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 desperately 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