A dazzling, debut novel-within-a-novel in the vein ofThe ProphetsandMemorial, about a young author writing about the secret love affair between E.M. Forster and Mohammed el Adlin which Mohammeds story collides with his own, blending fact and fiction.

In 1919, Mohammed el Adl, the young Egyptian lover of British author E. M. Forster, spent six months in a jail cell. A century later, Kip Starling has locked himself in his Brooklyn basement study with a pistol and twenty-one gallons of Poland Spring to write Mohammeds story.

Kip has only three weeks until his publishers deadline to immerse himself in the mind of Mohammed who, like Kip, is Black, queer, an Other. The similarities don’t end there. Both of their lives have been deeply affected by their confrontations with Whiteness, homophobia, their upper crust education, and their white romantic partners. As Kip immerses himself in his writing, Mohammeds story and then Mohammed himself begins to speak to him, and his life becomes a Proustian portal into Kip’s own memories and psyche. Greenland seamlessly conjures two distinct yet overlapping worlds where the past mirrors the present, and the artists journey transforms into a quest for truth that offers a world of possibility.

Electric and unforgettable, David Santos Donaldsons tour de force excavates the dream of white assimilation, the foibles of interracial relationships, and not only the legacy of a literary giant, but literature itself.

David Santos Donaldson was raised in Nassau, Bahamas, and has lived in India, Spain, and the United States. He attended Wesleyan University and the Drama Division of the Juilliard School, and his plays have been commissioned by the Public Theater. He was a finalist for the Urban Stages Emerging Playwright Award and has worked as the Artistic Director for the Dundas Centre for the Performing Arts in Nassau, Bahamas. Donaldson is currently a practicing psychotherapist, and divides his time between Brooklyn, New York, and Seville, Spain.Greenlandis his first novel.

• Publisher:Amistad (June 7, 2022)
• Language:English
• Hardcover:336 pages
• ISBN-10:0063159554
• ISBN-13:9780063159556
• Item Weight:14 ounces
• Dimensions:5.5 x 1.3 x 8.4 inches
• Alt: Green land