What if you discovered paradise … and then it was all blown away?
NOt on any map
One Virgin Island
Two catastrophic hurricanes
and the true meaning of paradise
“A great, important book—a memoir, a love letter, a farewell-to-paradise-in-the-face-of-climate-change story—combining reporting chops and poetry, both of which holt has in boatloads.”
—William Knoedelseder, New York Times Bestselling Author of Bitter Brew and Fins
“a gut-wrenching, person-by-person account of irma, blending storytelling with reporting … someone needs to tell the story, someone who knows the heart and soul of the place. holt certainly rises to the challenge.”
—Caribbean Compass
“Every so often, someone with a sharp eye and a way with words lands in a unique locale, pays attention and then nails it in print. Such is the case with Margie Smith Holt.”
—St. Thomas Source
About the author
Margie Smith Holt is a four-time Emmy-winning journalist. Since leaving television and radio she has worked in PR and marketing in New York and Philadelphia; as a waitress on St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands; and on boats, logging over 11,000 miles at sea. She is a volunteer mentor with the Visible Ink writing program at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and the founder of Get Me Rewrite, a writing business helping arts organizations, non-profits, and other people she likes tell their stories.
Photo: William Stelzer
