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It Happened on St. John: A Tale of the Island

It Happened on St. John: A Tale of the Island - Paperback

by Wilson Roberts
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Availability:In StockContributor:Wilson RobertsPublish date:9/21/2017Pages:246
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Wilder PublicationsISBN-13:9781515419020ISBN-10:1515419029UPC:9781515419020Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Mystery & Detective, ThrillersBook Topic:Hard-Boiled, Police Procedural, SuspenseSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.56 inchesWeight:0.368Product ID:SCBY146BFP

It Happened on St. John is a love letter to one of the world's loveliest and most unique communities in one of the world's loveliest and most unique places. Known locally as Love City, St. John is the smallest and most undeveloped of the three main islands of the United States Virgin Islands. The events in Wilson Roberts' most recent novel take place months before Hurricanes Irma and Maria ripped through the Caribbean with fearsome winds and tides, tearing communities to pieces and leaving shattered homes and lives in its wake.

It Happened on St. John is a tale of a community united to fight the schemes of con-artists threatening to develop an unsustainable marina in the Coral Bay section of the island. It is a tale of a community where people put aside small differences to help one another in the face of adversities. It is a tale of a community of music and music makers, artists, artisans and tradespeople, business people, of people from all walks of life.

It Happened on St. John is a tale for everyone who knows life on a tropical island can approximate perfection. It is a tale for everyone who has wondered what they might find, should they reinvent themselves on a 20-square mile Caribbean land mass. It is a tale for everyone who would like to believe that most people have in their hearts sparks of generosity ready to burst into flame. It is a tale for everyone who wonders if some mysteries can ever be solved.

It Happened on St. John is a tale for everyone who loves St. John, for everyone who knows someone who loves St. John, for everyone who understands what it is to love a place, any place, for everyone who understands what it is to love their community. It is a tale for everyone who understands that a beloved community cannot be allowed to perish, whether due to greed and ignorance, or due to wind, fire and rain.

It Happened on St. John is the second novel in Wilson Roberts' St. John trilogy. It is a tale of the island before Hurricanes Irma and Maria. It tells of the calm before those terrible storms, a time when people did not realize they lived in that calm, a time before the winds that rose to form Irma started with a small eddy of dust in the Sahara that blew into a boy's face and filled his eyes.

It Happened on St. John is a tale filled with characters and scenes and events that readers will not easily forget.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Wilder PublicationsISBN-13:9781515419020ISBN-10:1515419029UPC:9781515419020Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Mystery & Detective, ThrillersBook Topic:Hard-Boiled, Police Procedural, SuspenseSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.56 inchesWeight:0.368Product ID:SCBY146BFP
Roberts, Wilson: - There are rumors that Wilson Roberts came to earth through a worm hole originating in a distant and unknown galaxy. A recently discovered birth certificate indicates that he was born and raised in the small farming community of Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Roberts is a musician and storyteller who spent ten years chasing ballads and folktales in the North Carolina Mountains, taught school in the far northern reaches of New York's Adirondack Mountains, lived on Long Beach Island on the southern New Jersey Shore, and later on St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands. He is currently surviving winters in the hills of Western Massachusetts.The settings for his novels are as diverse as these experiences, his characters representing the many places he has lived and the people he has known: North Country trappers and hunters; Appalachian banjo players and fiddlers; serpent handling. strychnine drinking Tennessee preachers; Caribbean sailors, restaurant workers, musicians, cops and criminals; a great uncle who was an itinerant 19th Century actor determined to grow up with the nation who ended up in John Ford's first full-length movie; two brothers from Lubbock, Texas who set up an intentional community in a Western Massachusetts hill town; a small town police chief who arrests a murder suspect and forty years later is troubled that an innocent man was convicted and executed.His fiction is filled with losers and winners, and small-time sinners, ordinary men and women who are extraordinary in the ways all humans are as they struggle to prevail in a chaotic world.
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