Islomanes of
Cumberland Island

The novel, Islomanes of Cumberland Island, takes you on a journey to the most controversial National Seashore in the United States. Part family memoir and part history, the novel explores a love affair with an island visited by Civil War generals, Gilded Age elites, the Kennedy family, and modern day visitors. The setting itself—a wilderness of feral horses and Spanish moss—may be the book’s most striking character of them all.

In the book trailer below, you’ll see the Carnegie mansion before it burned, the wild horses that inhabit the island, the Baptist Church where JFK, Jr. and Carolyn Bessette were married.

The word “Islomane” was invented by writer Lawrence Durrell to explain the feeling one gets when one is on an island. Cross over the intracoastal waterway, drive onto an island, and breathe. You’ve left the noise, the headlines, the turmoil of the mainland behind. You are surrounded by water, and you are safe. It is quiet. Peaceful. You’ve come home.

I hope you like the book, and the journey.