This Foreign Land, Eleanor’s fifth novel, is now available in paperback through Littoral Books.
This literary novel features a story set in the year 2018, when children began to be separated from their parents at the southern border of the United States.
In Washington D.C., the Attorney General of the U.S. sets in motion a new immigration policy called “Zero Tolerance,” and by the hundreds, families are torn apart: children lose their parents, and parents are not told where their precious ones have been taken.
In chapter one of This Foreign Land, Vincent, a man in his mid-thirties, hears the news, and cries out to his sister, “What are we? Savages?” A week later, he puts a pack on his back and sets out on an extraordinary journey.
This book is an eloquent testament to fiction’s ability to speak powerfully and honestly, without polemics, to issues that matter to us, a novel that moves and inspires and takes us deep into the soul of America.
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Eleanor Morse
Eleanor Morse is an educator and author of four novels. White Dog Fell from the Sky was a Publishers Weekly Pick of the Week; An Unexpected Forest won the 2008 Independent Book Publisher's Award for best regional fiction and the 2008 Maine Literary Award. She is on the faculty of Spalding University's School of Creative and Professional Writing and lives on a small island off the coast of Maine.
White Dog Fell From the Sky
A rich and intimate portrait of Botswana and of three people whose intertwined lives create an absorbing and moving story during the time of South African apartheid.
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Chopin’s Garden
A New York City musician learns a secret from her dying father and journeys to Poland, the place of her birth, to search for a missing person.
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An Unexpected Forest
Set in Maine’s wild woods, bogs, and islands, this quirky first novel follows the journeys of four adrift souls who find unexpected joy and meaning.
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