This Other Eden (2023) by Paul Harding is another book that I picked up because it was one of Barack Obama’s favorites of the year. Harding tells the story of a small group of people, some of them mixed-race, who lived on a tiny, rugged island (Apple Island) off the coast of Maine in 1911. The largest family was the Honey family. Esther and her son, as well as her son’s three children all live together. It is a hard existence, but they generally have what […]