Paul Harding is a 56-year-old American musician and author. Harding is best known for his first appearance novel, Tinkers (2009), which won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Price and Pulitzer Prize Award (2010) in literary fiction. Paul Harding’s latest novel is This Other Eden (2023).
This Other Eden (2023) is about a racially diverse community in Maine that was displaced from Malaga Island, a place they called home for over a century. The government that executed this eviction operation cited safety concerns as the main reason for vacating the island. However, the government was becoming scared of the empowerment of the locals through education and funding from well-wishers. As a result, the government evicted the people from the island in the early 20th century and converted it into a high-end vacation destination to help the government generate more revenue. The government's decision to evict people unlawfully from their ancestral homes in Malaga Island was a crime because it had selfish interests.
Paul Harding’s This Other Eden received positive reviews after its publication. According to Book Marks, Harding’s novel, This Other Eden is an enthusiastic masterpiece of literature that gives detailed historical events. The New York Times praises Harding’s This Other Eden novel arguing that it has stunning prose making it fascinating and easy to comprehend. The Los Angeles Times compares This Other Eden to other works of Harding and concludes that this novel is fused over. This Other Eden has been selected for the Booker Prize Award 2023, and the National Book Award for the literary fiction category.
