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Jan 24, 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.
Jan 1, 2023 · Drawing inspiration from the the true history of Malaga Island, Paul Harding's third novel, This Other Eden examines what happens when societal standards, driven by the rise of eugenics, phrenology, and social Darwinism, are forced on a rural post-Civil War integrated community.
Jan 20, 2023 · Paul Harding's stunning new novel, This Other Eden, is inspired by the real-life consequences of eugenics on Malaga Island, Maine, which, from roughly the Civil War era to 1912, was...
Jan 24, 2023 · In his latest novel, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Paul Harding reimagines the history of a small mixed-race community’s devastating eviction from their...
Sep 21, 2023 · ‘This Other Eden powerfully reimagines a little-known chapter in American history: the heartbreaking fate in the early 20th century of the mixed-race descendants of a former slave, Benjamin Honey, and his Irish wife, Patience, who had settled on a small island off the coast of Maine in the 1790s.
This Other Eden is a 2023 novel by American writer Paul Harding. Background. The novel presents a fictionalized version of Maine's Malaga Island, dubbed "Apple Island" in the book.
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. In 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife, Patience, discover an island where they can make a life together.
