Lauren Francis-Sharma’s debut novel, ’TIL THE WELL RUNS DRY: A Novel (Henry Holt and Company; on sale: April 22, 2014), opens in a seaside village in the north of Trinidad where young Marcia Garcia, a gifted and smart-mouthed sixteen-year-old seamstress, lives alone, raising two small boys and guarding a family secret. When she meets Farouk Karam, an ambitious young policeman (so taken with Marcia that he elicits the help of a tea-brewing obeah woman to guarantee her ardor), the risks and rewards in Marcia’s life amplify forever. ’TIL THE WELL RUNS DRY sees Marcia and Farouk from their sassy and passionate courtship through personal and historical events that threaten Marcia’s secret, entangle the couple and their children in a tumultuous scandal, and put the future in doubt for all of them. Francis-Sharma gives us an unforgettable story about a woman’s love for a man, a mother’s love for her children, and a people’s love for an island rich with calypso and carnival, cricket and salty air, sweet fruits and spicy stews—a story of grit, imperfection, and steadfast love, and of Trinidad that has never been told before.
Posted on: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 19:13:34 +0000
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