Continental Drift

Name: Continental Drift
Author: Russell Banks Banks

by Russell Banks Banks

Haitian immigrant's tragic journey northward amid climate and cultural displacement

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Russell Banks Banks

Russell Banks was a New Hampshire-born novelist who wrote with devastating empathy about the white working class of the American North, and about the damage done by slavery and poverty in the Caribbean. Affliction and Continental Drift are his finest novels.

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AfflictionMan's spiral into alcoholism and domestic violence in New Hampshire
The Sweet HereafterSchool bus tragedy's aftermath devastates small community and grieving families
Rule of the BoneTeenage runaway from dysfunctional family searches for belonging
CloudsplitterJohn Brown's raid explores American violence and abolitionist fervor