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Wonderful! Throughout most of the book I kept feeling a strong 4 stars but as it neared the end I realized how invested I became with the characters and the emotions I felt as the end neared were powerful. Brooks is an extremely talented writer. Her writing feels what I imagine it felt like at the time, so what I imagine the voices sounded like, so authentic. It is evident how much she researched the topic and how passionate she felt towards the people of the times. I'm still feeling this one an
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Based on a real individual – the first Native American to graduate from Harvard – Brooks has crafted a fine work of historical fiction that explores the dangers and exhilaration of crossing boundaries – geographic, religious, and cultural.
Bethia Mayfield is a curious and intelligent young girl growing up in what we will know as Martha’s Vineyard in the mid- to late-17th century. Her father is a minister who endeavors to bring The Word to the Native Americans with uneven success. Bethia has learn ...more
Bethia Mayfield is a curious and intelligent young girl growing up in what we will know as Martha’s Vineyard in the mid- to late-17th century. Her father is a minister who endeavors to bring The Word to the Native Americans with uneven success. Bethia has learn ...more
Oct 25, 2014
Ƹ̴Ӂ̴Ʒ Jenn Ƹ̴Ӂ̴Ʒ Schu
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Greatly enjoyed the retelling with some creative liberties of the interactions of the native people of Massachusetts with the English. A bittersweet story of courage, hope, and renewal of faith. Thoroughly enjoyed and now hope to read accounts by Bradstreet & Hutchinson to further my knowledge of 17th C. Puritan women.
This was better than OK but I did not like the ending nor the jump from narrator's girlhood to end of her life. I suppose what happened was realistic but I'd have much preferred a different outcome. Reader annoyed me at first by pronouncing "a" as ay all the time instead of uh but I either got used to it or she eventually stopped doing it as much.
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Oct 31, 2022
Kelly
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