Island Man

In 2017, Hurricane Maria strikes Dominica, bringing Hector Peterson and his estranged father Winston Telemacque together to spread his mother's ashes. As they confront their past and the devastation of the hurricane, they are forced to reconcile their differences and restore shattered generational bonds.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 248 pages
Publication date: 14 September 2023
Publisher: Red Hen Press

A grieving Hector Peterson and his estranged father Winston Telemacque arrive on the lush island of Dominica in 2017 to spread his mother's ashes when Hurricane Maria strikes. Amid the devastation, the fragile peace between father and son is tested as long-buried family secrets at the heart of Hector's identity are unearthed. Hector faces down his failed marriage, shipwrecked career, and his own failures as a father, while Winston, after three decades of striving as an immigrant in Boston, seeks to reclaim the losses from a painful childhood and the bloody betrayal by his one true love. In Island Man, the ruins of past and present are reconciled, and shattered generational bonds are restored.

A grieving Hector Peterson and his estranged father Winston Telemacque arrive on the lush island of Dominica in 2017 to spread his mother's ashes when Hurricane Maria strikes.

Amid the devastation, the fragile peace between father and son is tested as long-buried family secrets at the heart of Hector's identity are unearthed. Hector faces down his failed marriage, shipwrecked career, and his own failures as a father, while Winston, after three decades of striving as an immigrant in Boston, seeks to reclaim the losses from a painful childhood and the bloody betrayal by his one true love.

In Island Man, the ruins of past and present are reconciled, and shattered generational bonds are restored.

Dimension: 228 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781636281308