In 1912, residents of Malaga Island, Maine were forcibly removed by the government. Paul Harding’s stunning new novel, ‘This Other Eden,’ is inspired by the real-life consequences of eugenics on that community.
You could imagine lots of ways a historical novel about this horror might be written, but none of them would give you a sense of the strange spell of-- its dynamism, bravado and melancholy. Harding's style has been called"Faulknerian" and maybe that's apt, given his penchant for sometimes paragraph-long sentences that collapse past and present.
The present time of the novel begins in that fateful year of 1911, when a"Governor's Council" of bureaucrats and doctors comes ashore to measure the islanders' skulls with metal calipers and thumb their gums. By the next year, the islanders are evicted; their homes burned down. The resort industry is becoming popular in Maine and the islanders' settlement is regarded as a costly blight on the landscape.
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