Swimming in the Volcano

A vibrant portrait of love and politics in the tropics from the National Book Award–winning author: “the finest first novel I have read in many years” (William O’Rourke, Chicago Tribune ).   Winner of the National Book Award for First Fiction for Easy in the Islands , Bob Shacochis returns to the islands with Swimming in the Volcano , a “splendid first novel” that illuminates the beauty and life of the Caribbean ( Library Journal ).   On the fictional island of St. Catherine, an Americ