A Enon, en Nouvelle-Angleterre, Charlie Crosby sombre peu à peu après l'accident qui a tué sa fille de 13 ans et le départ de sa femme, obsédé par la mort et rendu dépendant aux médicaments.

A Enon, en Nouvelle-Angleterre, Charlie Crosby sombre peu à peu après l'accident qui a tué sa fille de 13 ans et le départ de sa femme, obsédé par la mort et rendu dépendant aux médicaments.

In 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-missionary, disrupts the community’s fragile balance through his efforts to educate its children. His presence attracts the attention of authorities on the mainland who, under the influence of the eugenics-thinking popular among progressives of the day, decide to forcibly evacuate the island, institutionalize its residents, and develop the island as a vacation destination. Beginning with a hurricane flood reminiscent of the story of Noah’s Ark, the novel ends with yet another Ark. A spellbinding story of resistance and survival, This Other Eden is an enduring testament to the struggle to preserve human dignity in the face of intolerance and injustice.