# Not Quite Paradise

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- Book: [Not Quite Paradise](https://www.bookquiver.com/adele-barker/not-quite-paradise) ([Not Quite Paradise.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/adele-barker/not-quite-paradise.md))
- Authors: [Adele Barker](https://www.bookquiver.com/adele-barker)
- Publisher: beacon_press
- ISBN: 978-08-0700-125-7
- Pages: 312
- Published: 2011-01-04
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A chronicle of life on the resplendent island, combining the immediacy of memoir with the vividness of travelogue and reportage Adele Barker and her son, Noah, settled into the central highlands...