title: Archipelago: A Novel
author:  Monique Roffey 
description: Roffey follows her acclaimed The White Woman on the Green Bicycle (2011) with this stunning adventure story. A year after a flood destroys Gavin Wealds small house in Trinidad and sweeps away his infant son, his wife has retreated deep into her grief, and his six-year-old daughter, Ocan, still has nightmares. Gavin decides to drop out for a while. So he quits his job, settles his sleeping wife with her mother, takes Ocan, and embarks on a journey hes long dreamed of to the Galpagos Islands. Accompanied by the beloved family dog, father and daughter board Gavins old 28-foot sloop and head across the Caribbean and through the archipelago of Los Roques to Bonaire, Aruba, and eventually the Galpagos. After countless adventures, Gavin feels recharged, and Ocan, too, is blossoming and gaining an acute awareness of the natural world. But their odyssey has its drawbacks, and an injury suffered by Ocan, the loss of an old friend, and the many miles and days spent alone at sea begin to take their toll. After nearly four months, the travelers return, concluding this poignant, beautifully rendered saga of one familys struggle to survive a tragic loss. --Deborah Donovan
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  Copyright © Christine Angot, 1999
  
  
  English translation copyright © Tess Lewis, 2017
  
  
  First Archipelago Books Edition, 2017
  
  
  _L’Inceste_ was originally published by Éditions Stock (France), 1999.
  
  
  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or retransmitted
  in any form without prior written permission of the publisher.
  
  
  Library of Congress information is available upon request.
  
  
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  Cover art: Louise Bourgeois
  
  
  Cover and text design: Tetragon, London
  
  
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