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In the early 1900’s an important ship sinks into the Caribbean Sea, just as the Virgin Islands are transferred from Danish to American rule. Orphaned by the sunk vessel are two sisters and their half brother, now faced with an uncertain identity and future. Each of them is unusually beautiful, and each in possession of a particular magic that will either sink or save them. Chronicling three generations of an island family from 1916 to the 1970s, Land of Love and Drowning is a novel of love and magic, set against the political emergence of St. Thomas into an American territory. Wholly unique, with echoes of Toni Morrison, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and the author’s own Caribbean family history, the story is told in a language and rhythm that evokes an entire world and way of life and love. Following the Bradshaw family through 60 years of fathers and daughters, mothers and sons, love affairs, curses, magical gifts, loyalties, births, deaths, and triumphs, Land of Love and Drowning is a gorgeous, vibrant debut by an exciting, prize-winning young writer. https://www.tiphanieyanique.com/monster-in-the-middle daily 0.75 2023-03-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffc7498fcd2563393951123/1611515160007-YM8NHKET5JPOV3Y86DMJ/monster_in_the_middle.png Monster in the Middle https://www.tiphanieyanique.com/contact daily 0.75 2021-03-28 https://www.tiphanieyanique.com/press daily 0.75 2023-03-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffc7498fcd2563393951123/1630954302076-VO7MPN1ZKFYWC1287L27/Untitled.png PRESS - Vulture 40 Books We Can't to Read “A peripatetic, multigenerational saga, Monster in the Middle is a meditation on love, especially the Black love of Fly and Stela across the landscape of late 20th- and early 21st-century America. The book is a departure for Yanique: Her previous two, a story collection and novel, centrally concerned the U.S. Virgin Islands, where she is from, and leaned toward the historical and magical....” — Mik Awake https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffc7498fcd2563393951123/1630955008494-S5888O5SAI9WA29VM1ZL/Untitled.png PRESS - Publisher's Weekly. Monster in the Middle: Each arc reads as an evocative short story and an episode in the two protagonists’ complex set of unraveled connections. This introspective exploration of first and lasting loves will hit the spot with fans of character-driven family dramas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffc7498fcd2563393951123/1611504748019-F0Y7YGPTA6UK2IWJJ4J9/KIRKUS.png PRESS - Review for Land of Love and Drowning “A debut novel traces the history of the U.S. Virgin Islands through the fate of a family marked by lust, magic and social change.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffc7498fcd2563393951123/1611515653073-H8FAYQKPBYH9130KUDCU/Book-Riot-Logo.png PRESS - Review for Land of Love and Drowning “This debut novel is so gorgeously written and such a joy to read that I doled it out to myself in 20-page sips to make the pleasure last as long as possible. What more can I say?!” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffc7498fcd2563393951123/1611425513644-AIX37IFNX1PDF89OXSAI/godscaravan_new_yorker.png PRESS - Yanique, Tiphanie, “‘God's Caravan.’” The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffc7498fcd2563393951123/1611425742806-76XJNF8A5ESNUAV5X50R/Americans_in_battered_paradise.png PRESS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffc7498fcd2563393951123/1630954685336-SIP7RTSEEKZK3H72B1MA/Untitled+2.png PRESS - Kirkus Most Anticipated Books of the 2021 A rich and honest examination of family histories, cultural disconnection, and the way people fall in love. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffc7498fcd2563393951123/1611504257064-UTDRKWN41T3OWIIOINIA/PublishersWeekly.png PRESS - “For her debut novel, Yanique (author of the story collection How to Escape from a Leper Colony) has written an epic multigenerational tale set in the U.S. Virgin Islands that traces the ambivalent history of its inhabitants during the course of the 20th century.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffc7498fcd2563393951123/1611505205197-CHTNH61HKL43DMUE2D9E/logo_gray-895f864507d68e549bee2b02a0872a197ce42fe59b407ad4651db8acf446f06b.png PRESS - Review for Land of Love and Drowning “One of the “5 Under 35” authors chosen by the National Book Foundation, Yanique draws from the rich history of her native Virgin Islands for this multigenerational saga that begins in the early 1900s. Two sisters are orphaned after a shipwreck and must make their way from rags to riches with only their wits—and their remarkable ability to make men fall at their feet.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffc7498fcd2563393951123/26ab6c3c-cc21-4f87-8288-ae90574a33b7/Screenshot+2023-03-04+at+5.20.05+PM.png PRESS - 10 Georgia authors named finalists for Townsend Prize “Monster in the Middle” is a radical love story that proves “when you meet your love, you are meeting all the people who ever loved them, or who were supposed to love them but didn’t love them enough or, hell, didn’t love them at all,” writes Yanique. Central to her novel is the union of Stela and Fly, but that comes later. First readers meet the people who made Stela and Fly, and the people who made them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffc7498fcd2563393951123/1630954685336-SIP7RTSEEKZK3H72B1MA/Untitled+2.png PRESS - Kirkus Most Anticipated Books of the 2021 A rich and honest examination of family histories, cultural disconnection, and the way people fall in love. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffc7498fcd2563393951123/1611515653073-H8FAYQKPBYH9130KUDCU/Book-Riot-Logo.png PRESS - Review for Land of Love and Drowning “This debut novel is so gorgeously written and such a joy to read that I doled it out to myself in 20-page sips to make the pleasure last as long as possible. What more can I say?!” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffc7498fcd2563393951123/1611425513644-AIX37IFNX1PDF89OXSAI/godscaravan_new_yorker.png PRESS - Yanique, Tiphanie, “‘God's Caravan.’” The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffc7498fcd2563393951123/1611505205197-CHTNH61HKL43DMUE2D9E/logo_gray-895f864507d68e549bee2b02a0872a197ce42fe59b407ad4651db8acf446f06b.png PRESS - Review for Land of Love and Drowning “One of the “5 Under 35” authors chosen by the National Book Foundation, Yanique draws from the rich history of her native Virgin Islands for this multigenerational saga that begins in the early 1900s. Two sisters are orphaned after a shipwreck and must make their way from rags to riches with only their wits—and their remarkable ability to make men fall at their feet.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffc7498fcd2563393951123/1611425742806-76XJNF8A5ESNUAV5X50R/Americans_in_battered_paradise.png PRESS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffc7498fcd2563393951123/1611504748019-F0Y7YGPTA6UK2IWJJ4J9/KIRKUS.png PRESS - Review for Land of Love and Drowning “A debut novel traces the history of the U.S. Virgin Islands through the fate of a family marked by lust, magic and social change.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffc7498fcd2563393951123/1630955008494-S5888O5SAI9WA29VM1ZL/Untitled.png PRESS - Publisher's Weekly. Monster in the Middle: Each arc reads as an evocative short story and an episode in the two protagonists’ complex set of unraveled connections. This introspective exploration of first and lasting loves will hit the spot with fans of character-driven family dramas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffc7498fcd2563393951123/1611504257064-UTDRKWN41T3OWIIOINIA/PublishersWeekly.png PRESS - “For her debut novel, Yanique (author of the story collection How to Escape from a Leper Colony) has written an epic multigenerational tale set in the U.S. Virgin Islands that traces the ambivalent history of its inhabitants during the course of the 20th century.” https://www.tiphanieyanique.com/reviews-2 daily 0.75 2021-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1589847766023-TYF5QZ96XIXRZPA4EGWZ/image-asset.jpeg Reviews 2 - Make it stand out. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.tiphanieyanique.com/wife-1 daily 0.75 2021-03-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffc7498fcd2563393951123/1611513833474-YXNQPEC8MCBR0QMTVPRM/wife.jpg Wife Poetry Collection Winner of the BOCAS Prize for Caribbean Poetry Winner of the Forward/Felix Dennis Prize https://www.tiphanieyanique.com/how-to-escape daily 0.75 2021-03-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffc7498fcd2563393951123/1611514524844-KEQGTJE548Z5DQWV5RYP/how-to-escape.jpg How to Escape from a Leper Colony An enthralling debut collection from a singular Caribbean voice For a leper, many things are impossible, and many other things are easily done. Babalao Chuck said he could fly to the other side of the island and peek at the nuns bathing. And when a man with no hands claims that he can fly, you listen. The inhabitants of an island walk into the sea. A man passes a jail cell's window, shouldering a wooden cross. And in the international shop of coffins, a story repeats itself, pointing toward an inevitable tragedy. If the facts of these stories are sometimes fantastical, the situations they describe are complex and all too real. Lyrical, lush, and haunting, the prose shimmers in this nuanced debut, set mostly in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Part oral history, part postcolonial narrative, How to Escape from a Leper Colony is ultimately a loving portrait of a wholly unique place. Like Gabriel García Márquez, Edwidge Danticat, and Maryse Condé before her, Tiphanie Yanique has crafted a book that is heartbreaking, hilarious, magical, and mesmerizing. An unforgettable collection.