Description:
Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize
Finalist for the Chautauqua Prize
Finalist for the 2023 National Book Award for Fiction
Shortlisted for the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award
A New Yorker Best Books of 2023 - An NPR 2023 "Books We Love" Pick - An NPR Top 10 Book of 2023 - One of Time's 100 Must-Read Books of 2023 - A New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2023 and Best Historical Fiction of 2023 - A Chicago Public Library Favorite Book of 2023 - A Fresh Air Top 10 Best Book of 2023 - A Publisher's Weekly Best Fiction of 2023
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Tinkers, a novel inspired by the true story of Malaga Island, an isolated island off the coast of Maine that became one of the first racially integrated towns in the Northeast.
Brief description: Paul Harding's This Other Eden was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Booker Prize, and the Inside Literary Prize. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Tinkers, his first novel, and is also the author of Enon. Currently, he is a distinguished professor of creative writing at Emerson College. He lives outside of Boston, Massachusetts.
Review Quotes: [Harding] writes with the gravitas of a mythmaker...The pace of Harding's storytelling is stately, his descriptions, even of small events, gorgeous...This Other Eden is beautiful and agonizing--rather like the real place that inspired it.--Claire Messud "Harpers"