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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
One of Barack Obama's 15 favorite books of 2023 - A New Yorker Best Books of 2023 - An NPR 2023 "Book We Love" Pick and Top 10 Book of 2023 - One of Time's 100 Must-Read Books of 2023 - One of the New York Times's 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 Publishers Weekly Best Fiction of 2023
"A testament of love." --Danez Smith, New York Times Book Review
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: [This Other Eden] is a harrowing tale of paradise lost and a lyrical examination of people in isolation just trying to get by...[It] is a novel that is both devastating and meditative, a combination that is characteristic of [Paul] Harding's work.--MJ Franklin "New York Times"