Land of Love and Drowning

"A feat of tropical magical realism."--"Vanity Fair" "Spellbinding."--"Elle" "Sink or swim is the guiding theme in this fantastical, generational novel."--"Marie Claire" "This hypnotic tale tracks a Virgin Islands family through three generations of blessings and curses. It starts in 1900, with a shipwreck that orphans two sisters and the half-brother they've just met, and then spinso out magic, mayhem, and passion."--"Good Housekeeping" "A debut novel about three generations of a Caribbean family. It reads lush and is graced with rotating narrators, each of whom has a distinct and powerful voice."--"USA Today" "The novel provides readers with beautiful, imaginative prose via a story set in the Virgin Islands."--"Ebony" "Through the voices and lives of its native people, Yanique offers an affecting narrative of the Virgin Islands that pulses with life, vitality, and a haunting evocation of place."--"Publishers Weekly" (starred) "Bubbling with talent and ambition, this novel is a head-spinning Caribbean cocktail."--"Kirkus "(starred) "A few years ago, Tiphanie Yanique wowed us with her phenomenal story collection, "How to Escape from a Leper Colony." Now she brings us this astonishing and wondrous novel. Multilayered, multigenerational and epic in both talent and scope, Land of Love and Drowning is a stunning first novel about family, history, home and much, much more. Tiphanie Yanique's tremendous talents and incredible storytelling will astound you and leave you breathless."--Edwidge Danticat ""Land of Love and Drowning "is a gorgeous incantation of a novel, a masterly fusion of place, language, and seductive storytelling that will hold you spellbound from its first pages to the last. Tiphanie Yanique takes on all of it--the bitter and the sweet, love and loss, betrayal and faith, as well as the distant machinations of state that push us about like so many minnows on ocean tides--and d