Romer Shaw
Considered for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in FictionIn 1950s Guatemala-where fruit rots slower than truth-Connor Caine returns to the plantations of his youth, trading Ivy League ambition for exile in a land where revolution simmers in the shade of the banana groves. Once the son of a United Fruit executive, now a reluctant plantation boss, Connor finds himself caught between the ghosts of empire, the fire of a woman named Abigail, and the coming storm of the CIA-backed coup.As the nation teeters on the edge of liberation and betrayal, Connor must choose between the wealth that made him and the people who raised him. In a world where nothing is as it seems-and everyone is expendable-love becomes treason, and silence, a kind of sin.Told with unflinching honesty and poetic force, Ten Years of Spring is a haunting meditation on power, privilege, and the cost of doing nothing.ABOUT THE AUTHORConsidered a leading voice in the Southern Gothic Revival, Romer Shaw is a Southern-born writer of historical fiction, known for his evocative storytelling and haunting portrayals of the American past. His work explores memory, race, family, and the ghosts that shape us. The Hounded Slave, his most recent work, is considered his most intimate and lyrical novel to date.For more information, please visit:www.romershaw.com www.1805publishing.com
