Julia Island Women's Casual Summer Dress - Floral Print Short Sleeve A-Line Sundress for Beach Vacation, Party & Everyday Wear

Deep in the North Woods of Upper Michigan is an idyllic wilderness preserve, the Chippewa Club, set aside by Gilded Age millionaires for their personal enjoyment. Generations later, a female member has a child with a mysterious Ojibwa man who is never seen again. She whimsically names the child Hiawatha.Hiawatha grows up as a child of nature, befriending the forest animals, associating with the club members, and never even seeing a television until he is twelve. As he matures, he finds romance, and he finds purpose in protecting the land he loves.Then a devastating event forces Hiawatha and his loved ones to leave their natural homeland and move to New York City, little suspecting how their lives will lead them on separate incredible adventures from there.Julia Island is a triumph of mythmaking set in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. It blends together Ojibwa legends with quantum physics, takes readers from California to Afghanistan, plays upon stereotypes and incorporates recent American history. And at the center of it is a mysterious island that will make you question everything you think you know.