Land of Love and Drowning

A Novel

Tiphanie Yanique

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Hudson Street Press (an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc)
01 February 2016

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

A critically acclaimed debut from an award-winning writer--an epic family saga set against the magic and the rhythms of the Virgin Islands.

A critically acclaimed 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, the Virgin Islands are transferred from Danish to American rule, and an important ship sinks into the Caribbean Sea. Orphaned by the shipwreck 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. Uniquely imagined, 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 evoke 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, prizewinning young writer.

By: Tiphanie Yanique
Imprint: Hudson Street Press (an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc)
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 303g
ISBN: 9781594633812
ISBN 10: 1594633819
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 01 February 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Tiphanie Yanique is from Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands. The author of the story collection How to Escape from a Leper Colony, she is a 2010 Rona Jaffe Writers' Award winner and was named by the National Book Awards as one of 2011's ""5 Under 35."" She teaches at the New School and lives in Brooklyn and Saint Thomas.

Reviews for Land of Love and Drowning: A Novel

Praise for Land of Love and Drowning Yanique has written the best kind of summer read--lurid, yet layered and literary. --NPR A feat of tropical magical realism. -- Vanity Fair Spellbinding. -- Elle Sink or swim is the guiding theme in this fantastical, generational novel. -- Marie Claire Lush. -- USA Today