Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize<br /> Finalist for the 2023 National Book Award for Fiction<br /><br /> One of Barack Obama's 15 favorite books of 2023 - A <em>New Yorker</em> Best Books of 2023 - An NPR 2023 "Book We Love" Pick and Top 10 Book of 2023 - One of <em>Time's</em> 100 Must-Read Books of 2023 - One of the <em>New York Times</em>'s 100 Notable Books of 2023 and Best Historical Fiction of 2023 - A Chicago Public Library Favorite Book of 2023 - A <em>Fresh Air</em> Top 10 Best Book of 2023 - A <em>Publishers Weekly</em> Best Fiction of 2023<br /><br /> "A testament of love." --Danez Smith, <em>New York Times Book Review</em><br /><br /> From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of <em>Tinkers</em>, a novel inspired by the true story of Malaga Island, an isolated island off the coast of Maine that became one of the first racially integrated towns in the Northeast.