Michael Parker's vast and involving novel about pirates and slaves, treason and treasures, madness and devotion, takes place on a tiny island battered by storms and cut off from the world. Inspired by two little-known moments in history, it begins in 1813, when Theodosia Burr, en route to New York by ship to meet her father, Aaron Burr, disappears off the coast of North Carolina. It ends a hundred and fifty years later, when the last three inhabitants of a remote island - two elderly white women and the black man who takes care of them - are forced to leave their beloved spot of land. Parker tells an enduring story about what we'll sacrifice for love, and what we won't.
- ISBN10 1565126823
- ISBN13 9781565126824
- Publish Date 26 April 2011
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 261
- Language English