Land of Love and Drowning (Yanique)

Book Reviews
A debut novel about three generations of a Caribbean family. It reads lush and is graced with rotating narrators, each of whom has a distinct and powerful voice.
USA Today


The novel provides readers with beautiful, imaginative prose via a story set in the Virgin Islands.
Ebony


Spellbinding.
Elle


This hypnotic tale tracks a Virgin Islands family through three generations of blessings and curses. It starts in 1900, with a shipwreck that orphans two sisters and the half-brother they've just met, and then spinso out magic, mayhem, and passion.
Good Housekeeping


Sink or swim is the guiding theme in this fantastical, generational novel.
Marie Claire


A feat of tropical magical realism.
Vanity Fair


(Starred review.) [A]n epic multigenerational tale set in the U.S. Virgin Islands that traces the ambivalent history of its inhabitants during the course of the 20th century.... Through the voices and lives of its native people, Yanique offers an affecting narrative of the Virgin Islands that pulses with life, vitality, and a haunting evocation of place.
Publishers Weekly


In  the early 1900s, a ship sinks off the Virgin Islands just as they are being transferred from Danish to American rule, and two sisters and their half-brother are orphaned. Fortunately, each has a distinctive magical gift. A three-generation saga from an author born on St. Thomas, VI.
Library Journal


(Starred review.) A debut novel traces the history of the U.S. Virgin Islands through the fate of a family marked by lust, magic and social change.... Bubbling with talent and ambition, this novel is a head-spinning Caribbean cocktail.
Kirkus Reviews