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Published by Algonquin Books
$23.95(US)
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about The Watery Part of the World
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.
about Michael Parker
MICHAEL PARKER is the author of five novels and two books of short stories. Winner of the Hobson Prize for Distinguished Achievement in Arts and Letters and the North Carolina Award for Literature, he is a professor in the MFA writing program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. For more information, visit www.michaelfparker.com.
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