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May 20, 2013
THE PIRATE’S DAUGHTER Featured this Week
As part of our Weekly Reads program, Unbridled Books will feature Margaret Cezair-Thompson’s novel, The Pirate’s Daughter, an epic tale of a mother and daughter finding their way in a nation struggling to rise to the challenge of independence.
The book, first released by Unbridled Books in October, 2007, was greeted with great critical enthusiasm and was awarded the BookSense #1 pick. The novel’s story is about Errol Flynn who, after a long and storied career on the silver screen, spent much of the last years of his life on a small island off of Jamaica, throwing parties and sleeping with increasingly younger teenaged girls. Based on those years, The Pirate’s Daughter is the story of Ida, a local girl who has an affair with Flynn that produces a daughter, May, who meets her father but once.
Margaret Cezair-Thompson is the author of a widely acclaimed previous novel, The True History of Paradise. Other publications include short fiction, essays, and articles in Callaloo, The Washington Post, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Graham House Review, and Elle. Born in Jamaica, West Indies, she teaches literature and creative writing at Wellesley College.
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