Now available in paperback:
About the book: Caleb’s Crossing
is inspired by the life of Caleb Cheeshahteaumauk, the first Native
American to graduate from Harvard College in 1665. Brooks first learned
about him during her time as a Radcliffe fellow at Harvard in 2006.
Caleb was from the Wampanoag tribe of Native Americans who lived on
Martha’s Vineyard and this year Tiffany Smalley will become the second
Vineyard Wampanoag to graduate from Harvard. There is little official
information on Caleb’s life and Brooks’s novel is an informed imagining
of what he might have gone through.
Bethia Mayfield is a restless and curious young woman growing up in
Martha’s vineyard in the 1660s amid a small band of pioneering English
Puritans. At age twelve, she meets Caleb, the young son of a chieftain,
and the two forge a secret bond that draws each into the alien world of
the other. Bethia’s father is a Calvinist minister who seeks to convert
the native Wampanoag, and Caleb becomes a prize in the contest between
old ways and new, eventually becoming the first Native American graduate
of Harvard College. Inspired by a true story and narrated by the
irresistible Bethia, Caleb’s Crossing brilliantly captures the
triumphs and turmoil of two brave, openhearted spirits who risk
everything in a search for knowledge at a time of superstition and
ignorance.
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The time period really appeals to me. It's pretty interesting that it's based on a true story. I've read a couple of pioneer stories, though not in this setting and I find it takes a lot of bravery from the people to endure and make a life for themselves.
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Geraldine Brooks is always an intelligent storyteller.
I loved Year of Wonders