Land Of Love And Drowning: A Novel

(Paperback)

Publishing Details

Classifications

Physical Properties

Description

In the early 1900s, the Virgin Islands are transferred from Danish to American rule, and an important ship sinks in 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 their family, this is a novel of love and magic set against the emergence of Saint Thomas into the modern world.

Reviews

Praise for Land of Love and Drowning

Yanique has written the best kind of summer readlurid, 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

Author Bio

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.