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The Watery Part of the World

The Watery Part of the World

Parker, Michael

Paperback

Historical FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $13.95

ISBN10: 1616201436
ISBN13: 9781616201432
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Published: Jun 5 2012
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.60
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
A sweeping historical novel about a shipwreck off North Carolina's Outer Banks and the generations of survivors whose lives are shaped by the mystery, violence, and isolation that follow. Michael Parker's vast and involving novel about pirates and slaves, treason and treasures, madness and devotion, takes place on a tiny island battered by storms and cut off from the world. Inspired by two little-known moments in history, it begins in 1813, when Theodosia Burr, en route to New York by ship to meet her father, Aaron Burr, disappears off the coast of North Carolina. It ends a hundred and fifty years later, when the last three inhabitants of a remote island--two elderly white women and the black man who takes care of them--are forced to leave their beloved spot of land. Parker tells an enduring story about what we'll sacrifice for love, and what we won't.

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