Christine Hale

“Christine Hale is an extraordinarily gifted writer, as Basil’s Dream so eloquently testifies. Her moral vision is as clear and unblinking as the fine eye she trains on Bermuda, in all its paradoxical beauty and poverty, its landscape of privilege and thwarted dreams.”

--Richard Russo

“Basil’s Dream chronicles the slippery terrain of love, politics, and race with such beautiful deliberations and wise judgments that it seems to prove fiction can go where other forms can’t. It’s an entirely riveting story, vivid, full of intrigue, set in a Bermuda far beyond the border of cliché—a novel I won’t soon forget.”

--Joan Silber