306 pgs.
Adult Historical Fiction
Goodreads rating: 3.77
My Rating: 3
Setting: 1660's Martha's Vineyard, Cape Cod, Massachusetts
OSS: Bethia Mayfield tells of her life's travails from the time her twin brother was killed at age 7, through the friendship she made with Caleb Cheeshahteaumauk, and following both their lives 'til the end of each.
1st sentence/s: "He is coming on the Lord's Day. Though my father has not seen fit to give me the news, I have the whole of it."
I stopped reading this at page 150, saying enough is enough...death, sadness, pompous Puritanism. But I picked it up the next day and then the next and finished it. The second half was much more interesting and intention-holding than the first part, though there was still plenty of death, sadness and pompous Puritanism. I'm glad I finished it, though.
This is the fictionalized story based on historical records of two native Americans who made in through Harvard College in the late 1660's. One's American name was Caleb. However, this is the story of Bethia Mayfield, daughter of Martha's Vineyard's Puritan preacher in the 1660's.
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