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The Island of Forgetting

✍ Scribed by Jasmine Sealy

Book ID: 112047402
Publisher: HarperCollins Canada
Year: 2022
Tongue: English
Weight: 310 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781443465205

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✦ Synopsis

How does memory become myth? How do lies become family lore? How do we escape the trauma of the past when the truth has been forgotten?

Barbados, 1962. Lost soul Iapetus roams the island, scared and alone, driven mad after witnessing his father's death at the hands of his mother and his older brother, Cronus. Just before Iapetus is lost forever, he has a son, but the baby is not enough to save him from himself--or his family's secrets.

Seventeen years later, Iapetus's son, the stoic Atlas, lives in a loveless house, under the care of his uncle, Cronus, and in the shadow of his charismatic cousin Z. Knowing little about the tragic circumstances of his father's life, Atlas must choose between his desire to flee the island and his loyalty to the uncle who raised him.

Time passes. Atlas's daughter, Calypso, is a beautiful and wilful teenager who is desperate to avoid being trapped in a life of drudgery at her uncle Z's...

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