Continental Drift

<p><strong>The most convincing portrait I know of contemporary America . . . a great American novel. -- James Atlas <em>The Atlantic Monthly</em></strong></p><p><strong>From acclaimed author Russell Banks a masterful novel of hope lost and gained</strong>--<strong>a gripping indelible story of fragile lives uprooted and transformed by injustice disappointment and the seductions and realities of the American dream.</strong></p><p>Banks's searing tale of uprootedness migration and exploitation in contemporary America brings together two of the dominant realms of his fiction--New England and the Caribbean--skillfully braided into one taut narrative. <em>Continental Drift</em> is the story of a young blue-collar worker and family man who abandons his broken dreams in New Hampshire and the story of a young Haitian woman who with her nephew and baby flees the brutal injustice and poverty of her homeland.</p><p><em>Continental Drift </em>is a powerful literary classic from one of contemporary fiction's most important writers.</p>