{"product_id":"pelican-girls-a-novel-isbn-9780063299757","title":"Pelican Girls: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA sweeping epic in the vein of Philipp Meyer’s \u003cem\u003eThe Son\u003c\/em\u003e and Min Jin Lee’s \u003cem\u003ePachinko\u003c\/em\u003e and inspired by a true story, this stunning US literary debut captures the never-before-told journey of the Baleine Brides: a ship full of young women plucked from a Paris asylum and sent to marry settlers in North America's rough Louisiana Territory.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eParis, 1720. La Salpêtrière hospital is in crisis: too many occupants, not enough beds. Halfway across the world, France's colony in the wilds of North America has space to spare and needs families to fill it. So the director of the hospital rounds up nearly a hundred female “volunteers” of childbearing age—orphans, prisoners, and mental patients—to be shipped to New Orleans.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong this group are three unlikely friends: a sharp-tongued twelve-year old orphan, a mute ‘madwoman,’ and an accused abortionist. Charlotte, Pétronille, and Geneviève, along with the dozens of other women aboard \u003cem\u003eLa Baleine\u003c\/em\u003e, have no knowledge of what lies ahead and no control over their futures. Strangers brought together by fate, these brave and fierce young women will face extraordinary adversity—pirates, slavedrivers, sickness, war—but also the private trauma of heartbreak and unrequited love, children born and lost, cruelty and unexpected pleasure, and a friendship forged in fire that will sustain through the years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt once a gorgeously written work of startling depth and emotion and a gripping drama marrying high-seas adventure with pioneer grit, \u003cem\u003ePelican Girls\u003c\/em\u003e is a powerful, thought-provoking novel about female friendship and desire and the daunting compromises women are forced to make to survive.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\"Stunning, moving, and remarkable. \u003cem\u003ePelican Girls\u003c\/em\u003e is more than a novel, it’s an act of advocacy for human rights and for historical acknowledgment. Julia Malye has found a rich and compelling voice, unique to those who are experts in navigating between languages and cultures.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNguyen Phan Que Mai, internationally bestselling author of The Mountains Sing and Dust Child\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Julia Malye's\u003cem\u003e Pelican Girls\u003c\/em\u003e is a richly layered, multi-character narrative of a long-overlooked period in history. More than that, however, it's an exploration of the varied—and often cruel—ways in which we experience both abandonment and agency. Haunting, heartbreaking, and harrowing, Malye's story is one of survival and perseverance; it is a look into the lives of women who've had everything taken from them but still manage to go on. \" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVirginia Reeves, author of Work Like Any Other and The Behavior of Love\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Pelican Girls\u003c\/em\u003e is a marvelous achievement, an immersive and moving novel, as beautifully written as it is impeccably researched. I haven’t been this swept away by a piece of historical fiction since Maggie O’Farrell’s \u003cem\u003eHamnet\u003c\/em\u003e.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJess Walter, bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins and The Cold Millions\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Pelican Girls\u003c\/em\u003e is a feat of sublime imagination, every page a wonder. Malye has written an unforgettably rich and sensual novel—a triumph.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eElizabeth McKenzie, author of The Portable Veblen and The Dog of the North\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003ePelican Girls\u003c\/em\u003e is the kind of book you lose yourself in. It blends the most engaging historical detail with a story so fresh and relatable it was impossible not to feel bound to these women as they journey into their brave new world. I am grateful to Malye for effortlessly introducing me to a piece of history I knew little of and a story which will linger long with me. A beautiful and heart-rending evocation of a haunted, and haunting, moment in history.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJan Carson, award-winning author of The Raptures\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This book fascinates me. It’s moving in every way: a celebration of complicity and love among women and a summary of their difficult lives. It has everything in it: a great story, landscapes, atmosphere, depth and a finely wrought prose. It makes you feel that you are reading one of those literary classics that make you believe in contemporary fiction again—told with spark and excitement, and with the freshness only a young writer can give. ” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePilar Quintana, two-time finalist of the National Book Award, author of The Bitch and Abyss\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"To enter Julia Malye’s work is to be completely transported. Every detail in your vision, touch of fabric against your skin, pulse of blood through your veins, is rendered so lush and evocative that reading this novel feels like absorbing a lifetime of experience. The rare page-turner that both entertains and enlightens, \u003cem\u003ePelican Girls\u003c\/em\u003e is an undeniable achievement of research, storytelling, and human compassion. One of the best historical novels you will ever come across; this book is an absolute gift.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eM.O. Walsh, NYT bestselling author of My Sunshine Away and The Big Door Prize\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This richly imagined historical saga tells the story of three women, discarded by French society, who have little choice but to make new lives in a country thousands of miles away, married to men they barely know. As their lives intertwine again and again, Malye paints a vivid portrait of displacement and resilience, even as she lays bare the compromises her heroines must make and the ways they become complicit in the inequities of empire.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnna North, Anna North, New York Times bestselling author of Outlawed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Epic and nuanced. . . .The three principal characters are richly drawn, and the author displays a formidable grasp on her historical setting. It adds up to a well-crafted story of women finding ways to survive against forbidding odds.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A tale of female friendship unlike any I’ve come across before, Julia Malye’s inspired-by-a-true-story \u003cem\u003ePelican Girls\u003c\/em\u003e is as incredible a feat of research as it is a daring work of fiction.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn \u003cem\u003eElle \"\u003c\/em\u003eBest and Most Anticipated Fiction Book. 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