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Off the coast of Maine, Malaga Island supported a racially integrated community until the early 1900s, when the state evicted the islanders. In Pulitzer Prize winner Harding's (Tinkers) persuasive reimagining of the community, formerly enslaved Black man Benjamin Honey and his white Irish wife, Patience, land on Apple Island in 1793 and form an outpost that by 1911 includes their descendants, two sisters raising three Penobscot orphans, a brood of wayward children whose pare...Log In or Sign Up to Read More