{"product_id":"the-island-only-an-island-alasdair-mackinnon-9798246707630","title":"The Island Only an Island When the Ocean Allow It: An Exceptionally Gay Literary Comedy. The Full Text.","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe Island is only an island when the ocean allows it.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSeptember 2001. Jets cut low over Galveston, and a young woman named Amy Smart-newly arrived, newly unmoored-finds herself adopted by an East End neighborhood that remembers its own history the way bodies remember storms. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAcross Formica tables and front porches, over biscuits and gumbo, Amy is drawn into a Gulf Coast world where faith and skepticism drink from the same glass, where queer nightlife and old money share the same humidity, and where the dead are never quite done speaking. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE ISLAND ONLY AN ISLAND WHEN THE OCEAN ALLOW IT\u003c\/b\u003e is a literary comedy set on a Texas island that runs on gossip, grace, and catastrophe-part social satire, part love letter to found family, and part haunted odyssey through a city built on sand, memory, and desire.\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePlace-as-character: \u003c\/b\u003e Galveston's seawall, ghosts, heat, and history\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eFound family: \u003c\/b\u003e neighbors who feed you, friends who save you, communities that claim you\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eQueer life with teeth: \u003c\/b\u003e bars, books, longing, and the comedy of performance\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eMagical realism: \u003c\/b\u003e the strange hospitality of the island-and of the dead\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor readers who like their literary fiction intelligent, unruly, and alive.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eContains mature themes and adult language.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alasdair MacKinnon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798246707630\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/04\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 580\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.69lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.29d","brand":"Alasdair MacKinnon","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48437656551679,"sku":"9798246707630","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_69e70f8b-1a37-41cf-bc2c-ab505e6761aa.jpg?v=1777163206","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-island-only-an-island-alasdair-mackinnon-9798246707630","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}