Sea of Poppies - Ibis Trilogy Condition:Very Good For readers of Claire Messud

For readers of Claire Messud and Mary Gaitskill comes a striking debut novel of marriage

Contrary to common belief

finds a place to play hockey

George Yeo describes himself as a Taoist even though he is a Roman Catholic and is now on the Papal staff

the story moves from the rural Midwest of the 1960s

Sea of Poppies - Ibis Trilogy Condition:Very Good For readers of Claire MessudAt the heart of this epic saga, set just before the Opium Wars, is an old slaving ship, the Ibis. Its destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean, its crew a motley array of sailors and stowaways, coolies and convicts. In a time of colonial upheaval, fate has thrown together a truly diverse cast of Indians and Westerners, from a bankrupt Raja to a widowed villager, from an evangelical English opium trader to a mulatto American freedman. As