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“I held it out and Caleb took it. This was the first book he had held in his hands. He made me smile, opening it upside down and back to front, but he touched the pages with the utmost care, as if gentling some fragile-boned wild thing. The godliest among us did not touch the Bible with such reverence as he showed to that small book.”
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Massachusetts
“I held it out and Caleb took it. This was the first book he had held in his hands. He made me smile, opening it upside down and back to front, but he touched the pages with the utmost care, as if gentling some fragile-boned wild thing. The godliest among us did not touch the Bible with such reverence as he showed to that small book.”
I picked this up a while ago, and was enjoying it, but really needed to find another reason to pick it up agai ...more
Geraldine Brooks is one of my top 10 favourite writers, and so I was very keen to get my hands on her latest book. I just love the way she enters into the heart and imagination of a girl who lived so long ago, and brings that historical past so vividly alive. It’s a truly fascinating story too – told from the point of view of young Bethia, it details the events which led her Wampanoag friend, Caleb, to study at Harvard in the 1660s, becoming the first Native American to matriculate there. I real
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Pretty language; the story is told in a reflective style.
Found the pacing too slow. Didn't enjoy this as much as other books by Geraldine.
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