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From New York Times best-selling author of The Women, a historical novel around three women's lives on a California island. On a tiny, desolate, windswept island off of the coast of Southern California, two people, one in the 1880s and one in the 1930s, come to get started on new lives and pursue dreams of self-reliance and freedom. Their extraordinary experiences, full of have difficulties and hope, are the subject of T. C. Boyle's haunting new novel. Thirty-eight-year-old Marantha Waters comes on San Miguel on New Year's Day 1888 to revive her failing health. Signed up with by her spouse, a stubborn, driven Civil Warfare veteran who'll take over the procedure of the sheep ranch on the island, Marantha aims to persevere when confronted with the hardships, some anticipated and some not, of surviving in such brutal isolation. 2 yrs later their used teenage child, Edith, an aspiring actress, will exploit every chance to avoid the captivity her father has imposed on her. Time closes in on them all as the new hundred years solutions, the ranch stands untenanted. And then in March 1930, Elise Lester, a librarian from NEW YORK, settles on San Miguel with her spouse, Herbie, a global Warfare I veteran packed with manic energy. As the years continue they find a measure of fulfillment and serenity; Elise offers labor and birth to two daughters, and the family even achieves a star of kinds. But will the peace and beauty of the island see them through the impending conflict as it possessed seen them through the Despair? Rendered in Boyle's accomplished, assured words, with great period detail and absolutely memorable people, this is a moving and dramatic work from one of America's most skilled and inventive storytellers.
