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Caleb’s Crossing
- Narrated by: Jennifer Ehle
- Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
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Summary
The new novel from Pulitzer Prize-winner Geraldine Brooks, author of the Richard and Judy bestseller ‘March’, ‘Year of Wonders’ and ‘People of the Book’.
Caleb Cheeshateaumauk was the first native American to graduate from Harvard College back in 1665. ‘Caleb’s Crossing’ gives voice to his little known story. Caleb, a Wampanoag from the island of Martha's Vineyard, seven miles off the coast of Massachusetts, comes of age just as the first generation of Indians come into contact with English settlers, who have fled there, desperate to escape the brutal and doctrinaire Puritanism of the Massachusetts Bay colony.
The story is told through the eyes of Bethia, daughter of the English minister who educates Caleb in the Latin and Greek he needs in order to enter the college. As Caleb makes the crossing into white culture, Bethia, 14 years old at the novel's opening, finds herself pulled in the opposite direction. Trapped by the narrow strictures of her faith and her gender, she seeks connections with Caleb's world that will challenge her beliefs and set her at odds with her community.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
- D. M. Gethin
- 10-06-12
Caleb's Crossing
I enjoyed this book although it was a little slow-paced. I did find the narration a little stilted at times. It sounded as if the narrator had a slightly Pennsylvania Dutch accent. It may be that she was trying to recreate how English speech would have sounded in that time period. I couldn't guess how the book was going to end but when it came it was perfect and beautiful.
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- PT
- 23-11-17
A jewel of a story.
From the wonderful narration to the beautiful turn of phrase, Caleb’s Crossing is a gem of a novel. Written from the perspective of a girl from a Puritan family it eloquently shows feminism is not solely an issue for women today, nor is the inequality in treatment of those from other faiths and cultures. A top class experience from start to finish.
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- christine rumney
- 15-08-21
The very best.
I have had to wait to read this as time has been in short supply. It covers and negotiated the most modern, vital and human of aspects in its story. I knew this narrator would tread the territory by choice, perfectly. Thank you to that skill and the author for crafting this universal set of truths for so many of us.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
- Meena
- 13-06-11
Very Good
I enjoyed this title very much. Would recommended to everyone. This is worth the one credit I paid.
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