Castaway: Isola by Allegra Goodman
A 2025 novel offers a vivid portrait of a sixteenth-century French noblewoman marooned out of spite on a rocky, remote island.
What if the shipwrecked Robinson Crusoe had been a woman? The novel Isola, published in 2025 by Allegra Goodman, gives us a partial answer to that question. Like Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, the n…