Ghosts in the modern world combine with 1 woman’s battle to create her own future within this ‘epic and intimate’ (LA Instances) historical novel — through the director from the Sundance award-winning film Shirkers.

Uprooted from Shanghai with her father and twin brother, young Cassandra finds the Black Isle’s bustling, immigrant-filled seaport, swampy jungle, and grand rubber plantations a sharp contrast to the town of her childhood. And she soon makes another discovery: the Dark Isle is normally swarming about The Black Isle with ghosts.

Haunted and lonesome, Cassandra initially tries to disregard her ability to start to see the restless apparitions that drift outside and crouch in cool corners at school. However despite her problems with these spirits, Cassandra involves love her troubled new house. And soon, she attracts the notice of the dangerously charismatic guy.

Even while she becomes a fearless young female, the Isle’s dark forces won’t let her go. War can be looming, and Cassandra wonders if her unusual gift might be her beloved island’s just chance for salvation .

Taking readers through the 1920s, through the Japanese occupation during WWII, towards the Isle’s radical transformation into a gleaming cosmopolitan city, THE Black color ISLE is usually a sweeping epic–a deeply imagined, fiercely first tale from a captivating new voice in fiction.