'Til the Well Runs Dry: A Novel

'Til the Well Runs Dry: A Novel

<p><b>"As universally touching as it is original." -<i>The New York Times</i></b><br /><b></b><br /><b>Black Caucus of the American Library Association 2015 Honor Book in Fiction</b><br /><b><i>Booklist</i> Starred Review</b><br /><b><i>O, The Oprah Magazine</i> "10 Titles to Pick Up Now"</b></p><p><i>A glorious and moving multigenerational, multicultural saga that sweeps from the 1940s through the 1960s in Trinidad and the United States.</i></p><p>In a seaside village in the north of Trinidad, young Marcia Garcia, a gifted and smart-mouthed sixteen-year-old seamstress, lives alone, raising two small boys and guarding a family secret. When she meets Farouk Karam, an ambitious young policeman (so taken with Marcia that he elicits help from a tea-brewing obeah woman to guarantee her ardor), the rewards and risks in Marcia's life amplify forever. </p><p><i>'Til the Well Runs Dry</i> sees Marcia and Farouk from their sassy and passionate courtship through personal and historical events that threaten Marcia's secret, entangle the couple and their children in a tumultuous scandal, and put the future in doubt for all of them. </p><p>With this deeply human novel, Lauren Francis-Sharma gives us an unforgettable story about a woman's love for a man, a mother's love for her children, and a people's love for an island rich with calypso and Carnival, cricket and salty air, sweet fruits and spicy stews-a story of grit, imperfection, steadfast love and of Trinidad that has never been told before.</p>