Land of love and drowning

Description:

In the early 1900s, 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 is 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 emergence of Saint Thomas into the modern world.

subjects: Magic,  Large type books,  African American families,  African Americans,  Fiction,  African americans, fiction,  Fiction, historical, general,  Virgin islands, fiction,  Fiction, family life,  Fiction, sagas,  FICTION,  Historical,  Literary,  African American,  General,  Fiction, historical,  Brothers and sisters,  Blessing and cursing,  Incest,  Feminine beauty (Aesthetics),  History,  FICTION / Historical,  FICTION / Literary

Places: United States Virgin Islands,  Saint Thomas (United States Virgin Islands),  Saint Thomas (Island),  Saint Thomas