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The blind son of the founder of a short-lived utopian settlement in Colonial Delaware describes his coming-of-age in an olfactory memoir.
div class="productDescriptionWrapper">Seventeenth-century Holland is a major power with a large, wealthy middle class built on spices and slavery. Dutch schemes to colonize the New World attract few interested parties, but Pieter Cornelissoon Boom, an early Mennonite with a dream of communal living, brings a few families to Delaware Bay in 1663. Their "Little Common-wealth" is just getting started when the bloody economic rivalry between Holland and England unleashes violence on the coast of Delaware. The Nieuw Netherland colonies swing between Dutch and English ownership in a serie | |  | | War on the Margins
The Holocaust played out in microcosm on a tiny island in the English Channel occupied by the Germans. The real-life Surrealist Jewish Lesbian artists Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore figure prominently.
A historical novel with mostly real-life characters, War on the Margins follows the adventures of the now-almost-forgotten Surrealist artists and lovers, Claude Cahun/Lucille Schwob and Marcel Moore/Suzanne Malherbe as their quiet Boston marriage is interrupted by the occupation of their island, Jersey, by Nazis for the duration of the war. They become Resistance propagandists, help a young woman, Marlene, who has fled the city because she is Jewish, and wind up in German military prison on death row. Translations of their prison letters and notes are included.
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