The novel begins by contextualizing Easter Island’s geography and history. The novel utilizes atmosphere and narrative ambiguity to offer different interpretive possibilities, refusing to resolve, clarify, or reduce its complexities and gaps in understanding. Delving into research to redeem her reputation, having learned that her late husband plagiarized her work, Greer’s project almost a century later mirrors Elsa’s. When Elsa arrives on the island, her husband begins studying the giant stone Moai that ring the shoreline, while she studies ancient hieroglyphics engraved on tablets called rongorongo. The latter is Greer Farraday, a botanist from the United States, who travels to Easter Island on research after her husband dies. The first, Elsa Pendleton from England, comes along with her husband, an anthropologist, and her mentally disabled sister. Set in both 1913 and sometime near the end of the twentieth century, it follows two women, one from each time period, who travel to Easter Island with different prospects. Easter Island is a 2003 historical novel by Jennifer Vanderbes.
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