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Cheri
Nov 12, 2017 rated it really liked it
Beautifully told in the style of 17th c prose, Caleb's Crossing is much more a tale of Bethia, the narrator, than of the Wampanoag Caleb, whose story intertwines with her own. A Puritan woman's lot was not an easy one and it's painful to feel the restrictions that Bethia had to bear. My only complaint is that the book suffers from an affliction it shares with much historical fiction: the characters think too much like modern people. In some ways that's a good thing, enabling the reader to relate ...more
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