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Post by adcooper on Oct 15, 2011 11:33:39 GMT -5
Caleb's Crossing is the new book by Geraldine Brooks. I liked it! Historical fiction based on a shred of 17th century American history. The title character is the first Native American to graduate from Harvard (based on actual events), and the narrator is a young woman who knows him and follows her own remarkable journey (fictional, but a fair representative of her time). Brooks is such a good storyteller.
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Post by niaru on Oct 15, 2011 16:12:46 GMT -5
ooh! Good to know. I loved People of the Book and Year of Wonder was good, too.
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Post by niaru on Jan 14, 2012 9:29:29 GMT -5
I just finished this book and really liked it. What a vivid description she paints. Makes me want to visit Martha's Vineyard now. And it reinforced my opinion that as a woman, I am glad to be living in New England now and not in the 17th century. lol
(SPOILER ALERT) I'm so sad about the ending. I know she tried to keep the facts and weave a novel around them ( I read the postscript), and she did it well. I wish she'd go beyond the facts and imagine what would have happened if both Joel and Caleb had lived on, tho.
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Post by adcooper on Jan 16, 2012 16:38:41 GMT -5
Yes, I agree about the ending. It felt like such a loss for her, and for anyone who could have known those two remarkable men.
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