Revue de presse :
An Indie Next Pick (June 2016) Powell's June Pick of the List One of Elle's "19 Summer Books That Everyone Will Be Talking About" One of BookRiot's "Most Anticipated Reads of 2016" "Alexis M. Smith's Marrow Island is transporting."—Vanity Fair "A faltering journalist returns to an island abandoned after an earthquake released a toxic spill. That's the beautifully wrought setting of this novel, which reunites two childhood friends, one of whom has joined a sect claiming it can heal the land."—O, The Oprah Magazine "What's going on at Marrow Island? That's the question journalist Lucie Bowen is trying to answer in Alexis Smith's eerie novel. Twenty years prior, an earthquake turned this Pacific Northwest island into an environmental disaster zone. But now, a mysterious colony has sprung up on Marrow Island, and Lucie's instincts tell her something's awry. Smith's excellent command of language gives life to arresting characters and their creepy surroundings, keeping the suspense in this dark environmental thriller running high."—Elle, "19 Summer Books That Everyone Will Be Talking About" "Engrossing and atmospheric, a thorny meditation on environmental responsibility with a big haunted heart."—Miami Herald, “What do you recommend?” by Laura van den Berg "Once upon a time, there was an amazing little book named Glaciers, a truly beautiful thing to behold, and all the people who read it fell in love with it and pined for another book by Alexis M. Smith. Well, ready yourself Glaciers-lovers – only six more months until her new book!!! It is weird and glorious and I loved it. Different from Glaciers, but still wonderful. Marrow Island is about a journalist who returns to her home island to possibly report on a sketchy environmental colony that has set up residence on the island, and to visit her childhood best friend, who is one of the colony’s residents."—BookRiot, "Our Most Anticipated Reads of 2016"
Présentation de l'éditeur :
“Eerie and intriguing . . . captivates in the first few pages and delivers a gripping, compelling story throughout.”—Milwaukee Journal Sentinel “Smith’s excellent command of language gives life to arresting characters and their creepy surroundings, keeping the suspense in this dark environmental thriller running high.”—Elle It has been twenty years since Lucie Bowen left the islands—when the May Day Quake shattered thousands of lives; when Lucie’s father disappeared in an explosion at the Marrow Island oil refinery, a tragedy that destroyed the island’s ecosystem; and when Lucie and her best friend, Katie, were just Puget Sound children hoping to survive. Now, Katie writes with strange and miraculous news. Marrow Island is no longer uninhabitable and no longer abandoned. She is part of a community that has managed to conjure life again from Marrow’s soil. Lucie returns. Her journalist instincts tell her there’s more to this mysterious “Colony” and their charismatic leader—a former nun with an all-consuming plan—than its members want her to know. As she uncovers their secrets, will Lucie endanger more than their mission? And what price will she pay for the truth? “Transporting.”—Vanity Fair “Beautifully wrought.”—O, The Oprah Magazine “Engrossing and atmospheric, a thorny meditation on environmental responsibility with a big haunted heart.”—Laura van den Berg,Miami Herald
Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.