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The Lesson by Cadwell Turnbull
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*Winner of the 2020
Neukom Institute Literary Arts Awards for Speculative Fiction
(Debut Category)*
Included in
Oprah Magazine
's "16 Books to Read to Celebrate Caribbean-American Heritage Month
Named a Best Book of 2019 by
Polygon,
Barnes and Noble,
Publishers Weeekly
,
Kirkus
, Library Journal, and Fountain Bookstore!
Shortlisted for the 2020 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award.
Longlisted for the Massachusetts Book Awards.
Included in
Locus
' 2019 Recommended Reading List for First Novel.
AAMBC Literary Award Nominee for Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy Author of the Year.
An alien ship rests over Water Island. For five years the people of the US Virgin Islands have lived with the Ynaa, a race of superadvanced aliens on a research mission they will not fully disclose. They are benevolent in many ways but meet any act of aggression with disproportional wrath. This has led to a strained relationship between the Ynaa and the local Virgin Islanders and a peace that cannot last.
A year after the death of a young boy at the hands of an Ynaa, three families find themselves at the center of the inevitable conflict, witnesses and victims to events that will touch everyone and teach a terrible lesson.
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