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Summary: A Splendid Historical Novel
Review: The grace and style of Nowhere Else on Earth strike you immediately. It is the power that takes your breath away. Early on Josephine Humphreys makes one of her tiny beautiful descriptions; this one of a cypress tree which slowly builds up an island around it by catching dirt from the passing stream. Nowhere Else on Earth is such an island. It is built on layer after layer of evocative descriptions and scenes of such beauty and terror that your heart will ache.From the first page, Josephine Humphreys' main character, Rhoda Strong, is a sharp, engaging narrator who writes with such a deep yearning that you begin to feel sucked in to the history--swept up in the close society of the Lumbee Indians and the rich tangled land along Drowning Creek. This is a historical novel (and Humphreys nails every detail of the history), but Humphreys wields all of her historical research with a light hand. Perhaps her greatest achievement is evoking something that seems truer than history; she has created not only the thoughts and the dreams, but even the air in which these people lived.
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