CONSIDERED FOR 2023 PULITZER PRIZE IN FICTION
In 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.
ISBN: 979-8-9857170-0-6, 388 pages