Sandra Furlotte
, Rosa Cross
, Rodney Cross
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Deana Bueley
, Marilyn Stanley
, Penelope Penner
, Marjorie Roy
, Sarah Schwartz
, Rebecca Dixon
, Joshua Lewis
, Joann Horgan
, Jude Castillo
, Hoda Montazeri
, Linda Leitch
, Susi Lovell
, Benita Hartwell
, Cassandra Schiemann
, Marissa Yip-Young
, Stephanie Baird
, sarah campbell
, Page Burton
, Meradith Anderson
, Chris Carvalho
, Rianna Mcgarry
, Deb Philippon
, Navkomal Toor
, Nick Richards
, Margaret Palmer
, Macy McCubbing
, Cathy White
, Emily Peck
, Andrea Pole
, diana kirkwood
, Andrea Gillespie
, liisa hannus
, Vanessa Charbonneau-Dinelle
, Jen Bailey
, Noelle Walsh
, Julie Kaniak
, Mary Therrien
, LJ Law
, Natasa Ilic
, Tara Murphy
, Patricia Johnson
, Jean Keetch
, Susan Toy
, Virginia Reddin
, Arshia Goraya
, Gabrielle Wolfe
, Mercedes Swiftwolfe
, Gabriella Fars
, Lynn Hallson
, P. Thompson
, Debra Fisher
, Huguette Lemieux
, Barry Kazimer
, Linda Ham
, Freda Mans-Labianca
, Laurie Burns
, Kathryn Galan
, Alice Smith
, Hilary Squires
, Tina May
, angie kuhnle
, Paula Adam
, Shayla Bradley
, Beth Dekoker
, Phreia Von Woolfgard
, Ashley Raskovsky
, Kirsten Kennedy
, Ken Gilmour
, Lauren Seal
, Paula Ritchie
, Maria Mclean
, Lori Watson
, Caitlin Smith
, Elaine Baptie
, Cindy Bodini
, Naomi MacKinnon
, Eva Osterlee
, Mary Boulos
, Rachel Edmonds
, Margaret Jones
, Megan Brodie
, Esther VanGorder
, Chloe Moore
, Nancy Steinhausen
, Tiffany C
, Emily Zb
, Janice Cournoyer
, Elle Andra-Warner
, Vicki Bedford
, Christine Lion
, Jessica Gilbert
, Patricia McKeown
, Barbara McEwen
, Audrey Joyal
, Paris Semansky
, Zara Garcia-Alvarez
, Reilly Robson
, Susan Jang
, Elizabeth Obermeyer
, Deborah Kennedy
, Karen Kendrick
, Robert Hykawy
, Ashley Pamenter
, Denise Duvall
, Sharon Bird
, Vivian Thorgeirson
, Barbara Leckie
, Susan Terendy
, Sharlene Ketelaar
, Natalie Lessard
, Melissa Poremba
, Catherine Westerberg
, Alison Hewitt
, Anndee Newson
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Derek Davidson
, Janet Miller
, Sabrina Phan
, Filomena Falocco
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Lara Maynard
, Wanda Brine
, Jody Spencer
, Gwynn Scheltema
, Delfina Trevisan
, Debbie Youngman
, Shawna Sanderson
, Crystal Inwood
, Sean Pynaert
, Rhona Brinkman
, Sarah Van Dyk
, Siobhan Monaghan
How does memory become myth? How do lies become family lore? How do we escape the trauma of the past when the truth has been forgotten?
Barbados, 1962. Lost soul Iapetus roams the island, scared and alone, driven mad after witnessing his father’s death at the hands of his mother and his older brother, Cronus. Just before Iapetus is lost forever, he has a son, but the baby is not enough to save him from himself—or his family’s secrets.
Seventeen years later, Iapetus’s son, the stoic Atlas, lives in a loveless house, under the care of his uncle, Cronus, and in the shadow of his charismatic cousin Z. Knowing little about the tragic circumstances of his father’s life, Atlas must choose between his desire to flee the island and his loyalty to the uncle who raised him.
Time passes. Atlas’s daughter, Calypso, is a beautiful and wilful teenager who is desperate to avoid being trapped in a life of drudgery at her uncle Z’s hotel. When she falls dangerously in love with a visiting real estate developer, she finds herself entangled in her uncle’s shady dealings, a pawn in the games of the powerful men around her.
It is now 2019. Calypso’s son, Nautilus, is on a path of self-destruction as he grapples with his fatherless condition, his mixed-race identity and his complicated feelings of attraction towards his best friend, Daniel. Then one night, after making an impulsive decision, Nautilus finds himself exiled to Canada.
The Island of Forgetting is an intimate saga spanning four generations of one family who run a beachfront hotel. Loosely inspired by Greek mythology, this is a novel about the echo of deep—and sometimes tragic—love and the ways a family’s past can haunt its future.
