The Wished-For Country

Wayne Karlin

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The Wished For Country is set during the founding of the Maryland colony in the mid-seventeenth century. It traces the entwined lives of James Hallam, a carpenter and indentured servant; Ezekiel, an African slave brought to Maryland from Barbados; and Tawzin, a Piscataway Indian, kidnapped to England when a child, and now back in America. While Hallam goes on to become a soldier and a player in the politics of the Maryland colony, Ezekiel and Tawzin become the center of an outcast group of Blacks, poor whites, and Native Americans, who find themselves striving to reinvent themselves and their world.

The stories of these three men, the women who love them, and the community they form, bring to vivid life the experiences of those who came to America pulled by a dream of what could be shaped from an emptiness that embodied promise, of those who were unwillingly brought to be the instruments of that dream, and of those who saw the shape of their world forever changed by the coming of the Europeans.

Book Details

Publisher: Curbstone Press
Publish Date: Sep 1st, 2002
Pages: 340
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.62in - 5.62in - 1.02in - 1.00lb
EAN: 9781880684894
Categories: • Historical - General• General• Literary

About the Author

Wayne Karlin is an author, editor, and teacher. He has published three works of non-fiction and seven novels, and his short fiction and essays have been widely anthologized. As American consulting editor for Curbstone's Voices from Vietnam series, he edited and adapted translations of writers from Vietnam. A former professor of language and literature at the College of Southern Maryland, he retired in 2017 after 31 years of service.

Praise for this book

"A powerful and wonderful recreation, deeply imagined and richly detailed. This is a book to be cherished and (one hopes) highly honored." --George Garrett

"Again Wayne Karlin has demonstrated himself to be a serious artist who is concerned not only about what story is told but how! He has woven together strands of history and humanness and art into a wonderful whole." --National Book Award-winner Lucille Clifton

"The Wished For Country illuminates an aspect of our history that we dare not forget. Wayne Karlin's new book is an enthralling and important novel." --Robert Olen Butler