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At the switch of the eighteenth hundred years, John Morehead Tripoli is marooned on the unspoiled Caribbean island of St. Renard. There, he lives for an idyllic time in a community of Carawak Indians. 3 hundred years later, the Carawak are gone, St. Renard is carpeted with banana plantations and sugarcane fields, and Tripoli himself is kept in mind only through his grandson, creator of New Hampshire's Tripoli College or university, which keeps a branch campus on the island. The faculty, never successful, has been required to enter into a coercive financial marriage with treats large Big Anna Brands, the same company that controls the majority of the land on St. Renard. Big Anna deposes the school leader, uses students and faculty as test subjects for a "nutritionary and ambiance additive" called Malpraxalin, and hijacks the St. Renard campus for a "field studies" program. At the heart of this twisted satire are two souls in move. Bill Brees is a grandfatherly dean, "undercover" as a Tripoli freshman, and bemused by how things have evolved since his undergrad days. Maggie Bell is an African-American student, startled into the realization that nothing really changes in any way. When these improbable friends both elect to invest their spring semesters in the Caribbean, they will see a aspect of Big Anna even uglier than they could have thought. The Ghost Apple advances through a assorted and colorful assortment of documents, including tourism pamphlets, blog posts, slave narratives, and personal correspondence. Slowly and gradually these texts disclose the amount of Tripoli's current crisis, and highlight those historical crises in the midst of which the college-and the nation-were founded.
