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A significant debut from an award-winning writer - an epic family saga set resistant to the magic and the rhythms of the Virgin Islands. In the first 1900s an important ship sinks in to the Caribbean Sea, in the same way the Virgin Islands are moved from Danish to American rule. Orphaned by the sunk vessel are two sisters and their half-brother, now confronted with an uncertain id and future. All of them is unusually beautiful, and each is possession of a specific magic that will either sink or save them. Chronicling three generations of island family from 1916 to the 1970s, Land of Love and Drowning is a book of love and magic, set against the introduction of Saint Thomas in to the modern world. Wholly unique, with echoes of Toni Morrison, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and the author's own Caribbean genealogy, the storyplot is informed in a dialect and rhythm that evokes an entire world and life-style and love. Following the Bradshaw family through 60 years of fathers and daughters, mothers and sons, love affairs, curses, wonderful gift ideas, loyalties, births, fatalities, and triumphs, Land of Love and Drowning is a striking, vivid debut by an exciting, prize-winning young writer.
