The Last Good Paradise
The Last Good Paradise
Author: Tatjana Soli
Desc: From the bestselling author of The Lotus Eaters and The Forgetting Tree comes a novel set on an island resort where guests attempting to flee their troubles realize they can’t escape who they are. On a small unnamed coral atoll in the South Pacific a group of troubled dreamers must face the possibility that the hopes they’ve labored after so single-mindedly might not lead them to the happiness they feel they were promised. Ann and Richard an aspiring Los Angeles power couple are already sensing the cracks in their version of the American dream when their life unexpectedly implodes leading them to brashly run away from home to a Robinson Crusoe idyll. Dex Cooper lead singer of the rock band Prospero is facing his own slide from greatness experimenting with artistic asceticism while accompanied by his sexy young and increasingly entrepreneurial muse Wende. Loren the French owner of the resort sauvage has made his own Gauguin-like retreat from the world years before only to find that the modern world has become impossible to disconnect from. Titi descendent of Tahitian royalty worker and eventual inheritor of the resort must fashion a vision of the island’s future that includes its indigenous people while her partner Cooked is torn between anarchy and lust. By turns funny and tragic The Last Good Paradise explores our modern complex and often self-contradictory discontents crafting an exhilarating story about our need to connect in an increasingly networked but isolating world.