Easter Island is a tour de force of storytelling that will establish Jennifer Vanderbes as one of the most gifted writers of her generation. Chapter 1. The decisive moment for Germany's fleet in the Great War was, indisputably, its ill-timed arrival at the Falkland Islands. EASTER ISLAND. Jennifer Vanderbes, Author. Dial $ (p) ISBN Restrained passion and conflicted loyalties drive this sweeping debut novel, in . Weaving together a pair of remarkable stories, debut novelist Jennifer Vanderbes explores the realms of love and anger, trust and betrayal, through the eyes of two exceptional young women living nearly a century apart who journey to the most remote island in the world—Easter Island.
In , Jennifer Vanderbes began work on a nonfiction book about the thalidomide scandal of the s. Inspired by the actions of Dr. Frances Kelsey - the FDA Medical Reviewer who fought to keep the drug off the American market - Vanderbes began to research the American side of the story, which had never been written about in depth. EASTER ISLAND A Washington Post and Christian Science Monitor "Best Book of the Year" "Family conflict, fascinating social commentary, and a riveting plot converge in Jennifer Vanderbes' stunning STRANGERS AT THE FEAST, a thriller that also raises large and haunting questions about the meaning of guilt, innocence, and justice."-O, The Oprah. Easter Island by Jennifer Vanderbes ISBN ISBN Paperback; New York, New York, U.s.a.: Random House Publishing Group, ; ISBN Jennifer Vanderbes is a graduate of Yale University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She was a McCreight Fellow in Fiction at the University of Wisconsin, and.
Easter Island. by Jennifer Vanderbes. 1. The decisive moment for Germany's fleet in the Great War was, indisputably, its ill-timed arrival at the Falkland Islands. Having avoided detection by the Allies for three months since the outbreak of hostilities, it was their great misfortune to head straight for the Falklands just hours after the British fleet put in to coal there. Easter Island is a tour de force of storytelling that will establish Jennifer Vanderbes as one of the most gifted writers of her generation. Chapter 1. The decisive moment for Germany's fleet in the Great War was, indisputably, its ill-timed arrival at the Falkland Islands. EASTER ISLAND. In this extraordinary fiction debut -- rich with love and betrayal, history and intellectual passion -- two remarkable narratives converge on Easter Island, one of the most remote places in the world.
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