Bibliograph

Flight of the sparrow, a novel of early America, Amy Belding Brown

Type

Label

Flight of the sparrow, a novel of early America, Amy Belding Brown

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Flight of the sparrow

Medium

text large print

Oclc number

881910445

Responsibility statement

Amy Belding Brown

Series statement

Thorndike Press large print historical fiction

Sub title

a novel of early America

Summary

Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1676. Even before Mary Rowlandson is captured by Indians on a winter day of violence and terror, she sometimes found herself in conflict with her rigid Puritan community. Now, her home destroyed, her children lost to her, she has been sold into the service of a powerful woman tribal leader, made a pawn in the on-going bloody struggle between English settlers and native people. Battling cold, hunger, and exhaustion, Mary witnesses harrowing brutality but also unexpected kindness. To her confused surprise, she is drawn to her captors' open and straightforward way of life, a feeling further complicated by her attraction to a generous, protective English-speaking native known as James Printer. All her life, Mary has been taught to fear God, submit to her husband, and abhor Indians. Now, having lived on the other side of the forest, she begins to question the edicts that have guided her, torn between the life she knew and the wisdom the natives have shown her. (Based on a true story.)

Target audience

adult

Classification