The Boatmaker

ISBN:
9781935639985
Pub Date:
03/03/2015
List Price:
$15.95
Page Count:
400
ISBN:
9781935639992
Pub Date:
01/19/2015
List Price:
$17.48
Page Count:
400

Longlisted for the 2016 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction

Part fable, part allegory, The Boatmaker is the haunting and passionate story of a voyage of self-discovery.

A fierce and complicated man wakes from a fever dream compelled to build a boat and sail away from the isolated island where he was born. Encountering the wider world for the first time, the reluctant hero falls into a destructive love affair, is swept up into a fanatical religious movement, and finds himself a witness to racial hatred unlike anything he’s ever known. The boatmaker is tempted, beaten, and betrayed: his journey marked by chilling episodes of violence and horror while he struggles to summon the strength to make his own way. The Boatmaker is a fable for our times, a passionate love story, and an odyssey of self-discovery.

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