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Dominic Smith

Dear Librarians,

BRIGHT AND DISTANT SHORES is a literary adventure story, set amid the skyscrapers of 1890s Chicago and the far-flung islands of the South Seas. It traces the collision course of commercial America and the tribal Pacific.

"A magnificent epic..." —Booklist

"...an absorbing exploration of culture, tradition, and renewal..." —Starred review, Publishers Weekly

"Written with extraordinary literary grace, Smith's third novel gleams as a gem of evocative historical fiction." —Starred review, Kirkus Reviews

The novel traces an ill-fated museum collecting voyage that is commissioned to bring back thousands of tribal artifacts but also a number of Pacific islanders for an ethnographic exhibition. Caught up in the scheme are two orphans—Owen Graves, an itinerant trader from Chicago's South Side, and Argus Niu, a mission houseboy from Melanesia who wanders into the path of the expedition. Their lives will be changed irrevocably.

Very best regards,
Dominic Smith
www.DominicSmith.net