Richmond Heights Book Club Review: 'Caleb’s Crossing'
The Richmond Heights Memorial Library Book Club discussed "Caleb's Crossing" by Geraldine Brooks earlier this month.
The book jacket and advertisements for Caleb’s Crossing present it as the story of the first Native American to graduate from Harvard, a Native face amongst the Puritan class of 1665. However, Caleb Cheeshahteaumauck’s real-life story is merely the scaffolding upon which author Geraldine Brooks arranges the story of Bethia Mayfield, a fictional young Puritan girl who befriends Caleb, falls in love with him, and manages to follow him as he takes his journey from village medicine-boy-in-training to Harvard graduate, while she herself changes more completely and subtly in his wake. This book is really about Bethia’s crossing. (Read more Richmond Heights Memorial Library Book Club reviews.) Bethia starts as a devout, subservient Puritan girl—…
Helene gottesmann
2:33 pm on Monday, June 18, 2012
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