This Other Eden by Paul Harding holiday Written in Quindlen’s emotionally resonant

Written in Quindlen’s emotionally resonant voice

Like Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street or Toni Morrison’s Sula

eleven-year-old Dorothy “Donkey” Zook

and the Rubicon women are thrown into chaos

the magicians of the House of Life are on the brink of civil war

This Other Eden by Paul Harding holiday Written in Quindlen’s emotionally resonantIn 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife, Patience, discover an island where they can make a life together. Over a century later, the Honeys descendants and a diverse group of neighbors are desperately poor, isolated, and often hungry, but nevertheless protected from the hostility awaiting them on the mainland. During the tumultuous summer of 1912, Matthew Diamond, a retired, idealistic but prejudiced schoolteacher turned