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Tabitha loves wandering the marshes of her small coastal village and listening to stories about her father's pirate voyages before he became a Continental soldier during the Amer-ican Revolution. When Tab contracts yellow fever, her father, John, takes her aboard a sloop bound for Bermuda, hoping the adventure and salt air will heal her.Years earlier, Tab's mother, Helen, is given a young slave named Moll for her tenth birthday. Left largely alone, the two develop a close but uneasy companionship. Over the years their paths diverge: Helen takes control of the family plantation, and Moll is forced into marriage. While Helen disobeys her father's wishes by falling in love with John, Moll's only solace is her son, whom she will protect with a passion that defies the bounds of slavery. This incandescent debut captures the singular love between parent and child, the devastation of love lost, and the desperate paths we travel in the name of renewal.

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"The arresting prose, vividly original characters, and narrative drive with which Smith tells this story of desperate familial love on a long-ago coast provided this reader with several hours of pure pleasure and a rare glimpse of grace in a fictional world."--Anita Shreve

"A marvel. With prose as meticulous as brushstrokes, I can think of no other debut filled with such wonder, grace, and beauty...a tremendous achievement, a masterful exploration of parenthood and faith...An heir apparent to Michael Ondaatje and Marilynne Robinson, Katy Simpson Smith has written a book for all of us."--Paul Yoon

"Smith hasn't merely evoked late-18th century American lives on shore and at sea-she's invented them afresh...She doesn't peddle the cozy illusion that, after all, these were people just like us; while reading THE STORY OF LAND AND SEA, we become just like them."--David Gates

"A pristine and powerful book...[Smith's] voice is a poet's and her vision is as expansive as the ocean, as the history in its depths. In her gorgeous and heart-rending first novel, she lays bare the hearts of parent and child, slave and master, and, most impressively, her readers."--Bret Anthony Johnston

"Smith's soulful language of loss is almost biblical, and the descriptions of her characters' sorrows are poetic and moving."--Publishers Weekly

"A luminous Revolutionary War novel set to be the debut of the year"--Vogue

"Smith's spare prose and storytelling style is resonant of oral history or folk tales, and the early chapters focusing on John and his daughter Tabitha, and her desire for the sea, call to mind Sena Jeter Naslund's AHAB'S WIFE."--Library Journal

"A luminous debut..."--O, the Oprah Magazine

"Smith's narrative flawlessly blends the beauty and idealism of American independence with the hypocrisy and devastation that lay beneath it...Smith's evocation of the humanity of both slave-owner and slave never falters, leading readers to a troubling and heartrending conclusion."--Huffington Post

"Hypnotic...Smith employs a style of impressively measured, atmospheric understatement in her unabashedly stark descriptions, and we thrill to watch her characters row stoically into a darkening future."--Elle
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Katy Simpson Smith is the author of a study of early American motherhood, We Have Raised All of You: Motherhood in the South, 1750-1835, and a novel, The Story of Land and Sea. She lives in New Orleans.

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  • PublisherHarperluxe
  • Publication date2014
  • ISBN 10 006234417X
  • ISBN 13 9780062344175
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages312
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