Back to Rock Island by James Vantana: A Reading of Historical Fiction

Set in Old Communipaw and Bergen, and across the seventeenth century, Dutch and English trade empires, Back to Rock Island explores the elasticity of historical memory and the cost of colonization on the human soul.

From jamesvantana.com

"The twenty-first century unraveled, at first without notice, but after too many bad things happened, people could not escape the accumulating horror and became fearful and violent. And when things got too real, the people became overripe for distraction. Then the screens came, and reality dissipated into the mindless glare and flicker of computers, tablets, phones, a primordial LED display that gave birth to a new race of terrified, violent consumers who couldn’t see the increasing scarcity of trees, or the brown, rising, microplastic water." -  James Vantana