Fiction. Animations. App.
Island Fruit Remedy combines Rich Shapero’s stirring novel with whimsical art animations to create a delicious immersive story experience.
“Original and thought-provoking. It will leave you in awe.”
—Elizabeth Sagan @elizabeth_sagan
About Island Fruit Remedy
Wood is a romance writer whose wife leaves him. Stung, and with a head full of fantasies, he hastens to Key West to heal.
On the free-wheeling Key, Wood encounters women with the names and personalities of tropical fruit. Each holds a mirror up to his romantic ideas, and with one, he forms a deep connection.
But the mystery of the elusive Papaya is a fantasy he can’t set aside, and it threatens to destroy everything—until, in his greatest moment of need, Wood conjures the ultimate teacher . . .
With burlesque flair and keen insight, Island Fruit Remedy tells a stirring story about learning to love.
Download the entire book as PDFAbout the Book
A Q&A with Rich Shapero
Q: Our protagonist, Wood, is a fantasist. It takes him some time to see his romantic fantasies for what they are. One has to wonder: do you write from experience?
RS: If you’re going for the truth, there’s no other way.
Q: It’s a difficult journey for him, but he finds home and hearth.
RS: He does. In a way, Island Fruit Remedy is a counterstatement to Rin, Tongue and Dorner. Wood finds what Dorner does not. The remedy is truthful to me, because that’s how I experienced it. Finding home and hearth is difficult if it’s not part of your childhood.
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A Q&A with Rich Shapero
Q: Artwork appears in the digital versions of most of your novels, but there is a striking connection between Ramón Alejandro’s paintings and the specific events and ideas in Island Fruit Remedy
RS: In no other project is the correspondence so close. It was a collaboration in every respect, from character to plot to setting to theme. The idea for the story germinated in the eighties, long before I knew Ramón’s work. But I couldn’t figure out how to tell the story. Ramón gave me the characters and events, and it was his outlook on gender that helped me make Wood’s experience concrete.
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Island Fruit Remedy book app for iOS
Rich Shapero's Island Fruit Remedy multimedia Book App, designed specifically for iOS, seamlessly combines his mind-bending novel with original music and stunning visual art to create an rapturous immersive storytelling experience. This Book App is available as a free download.
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Island Fruit Remedy for Google Play
Download Island Fruit Remedy on Google Play—a free, fully interactive reading experience that includes the novel, music, visual art and more.
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Island Fruit Remedy for Amazon
Download Island Fruit Remedy on the Amazon Appstore—a free, fully interactive reading experience that includes the novel, music, visual art and more.
“The Tamarind tree was loaded with fruit, far more, it seemed, than any man could consume.
Wood pulled off the pods in handfuls and crushed them, and as soon as the gluey pulp passed his lips, he reached for more. The words she had spoken, the ‘something’ she wanted— His senses were drowning . . .
Then he opened his mouth, and . . . Tamarind’s seeds fell into his hands . . . And in every one, he could see his reflection.”
