Islanders

By Ammiel Alcalay

Enigmatic and multi-layered, Islanders is about finding one's own hard-won truth. A young man's indelible memories of the struggle to find intimacy--formative experiences like the ebb and flow of friendships, love, and ordinary workaday life--are viewed through a lens of nostalgic longing and hard-eyed realism as he attempts to come to terms with the past. Set during the cataclysm of the last years of the war in Vietnam, in a landscape that shifts between the bleak fishing towns of the Atlantic coast to the ruined cities of the Northeast, Islanders explores the classic theme of identity's intricate relationship to place.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0872865061
• ISBN13: 9780872865068
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: City Lights Books
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.2" x 7.0"