This Other Eden by Paul Harding holiday planning to venture out to

planning to venture out to the open seas in search of treasure

it is human nature to do two things: seek out meaningful human connection and respond to anonymous internet postings

eleven-year-old Dorothy “Donkey” Zook

to win back her estranged teenage daughter on her sixteenth birthday

This Other Eden by Paul Harding holiday planning to venture out toIn 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