Book Spotlight: Caleb’s Crossing (and Giveaway, too!) – GIVEAWAY CLOSED

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. 

Giveaway Information: – GIVEAWAY CLOSED

Thanks to Rebecca at Viking/Penguin Publicity I have one copy of the new paperback version of Caleb’s Crossing to give away to my readers.  Giveaway is open to US/Canada only.

To enter please leave a comment below and include your email address (only comments with email addresses will be entered in the giveaway).

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All entries can be in one comment- but don’t forget your email address or it won’t count!

Thanks to everyone for entering! Good luck!

GIVEAWAY ENDS AUGUST 3rd

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10 Comments

  1. gail
    July 24, 2012 / 9:42 pm

    thanks for this giveaway!
    gkuroda(at)hawaii.edu

  2. Anonymous
    July 24, 2012 / 10:22 pm

    thanks for the giveaway!
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  3. Lara Newell
    July 24, 2012 / 11:48 pm

    Great giveaway!

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  4. Chris Thompson
    July 25, 2012 / 3:16 pm

    Thanks for the giveaway! I'm a GFC follower.

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  5. Carl Scott
    July 25, 2012 / 8:55 pm

    I've thought that this book sounded fascinating since the first time I saw it. Please enter my name for the chance to win a copy.

    carlscott(at)prodigy(dot)net(dot)mx

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  6. Literary Chanteuse
    July 26, 2012 / 1:14 am

    I would love to read this one!

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  7. Na
    July 27, 2012 / 6:34 am

    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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  8. Kathy
    July 30, 2012 / 2:07 am

    Thank you for the giveaway!
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  9. Kathy
    July 30, 2012 / 2:08 am

    GFC Follower

  10. Ellen
    August 1, 2012 / 4:02 pm

    Geraldine Brooks is always an intelligent storyteller.
    I loved Year of Wonders