The Watery Part of the World

✍ Scribed by Parker, Michael

• Book ID: 106968988
• Publisher: Algonquin Books
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 151 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781565126824

✦ Synopsis

Michael Parker has created a wholly original world from two known facts: (1) Theodosia Burr Alston, daughter of the controversial vice president Aaron Burr, disappeared in 1813 while en route by schooner from South Carolina to New York; and (2) in 1970, two elderly white women and one black man were the last townspeople to leave a small barrier island off the coast of North Carolina.

In this fiction based on historical fact, Parker weaves a tale of adventure and longing as he charts one hundred and fifty years in the life and death of an island and its inhabitants-- the descendants of Theodosia Burr Alston and those of the freed man whose family would be forever tethered to hers.

It's a tale of pirates and slaves, treason and treasures, madness and devotion, that takes place on a tiny island battered by storms, infested with mosquitoes, and cut off from the world--as difficult to get to as it is impossible to leave for those who call it home. From Theodosia's. . .