This is one of the best books I read this year. Caleb's Crossing takes place during the early Colonial period of the Massachusetts Bay colony. I have done a lot of reading about this time period, so I was interested to see how accurate the author portrayed the era. She did a magnificent job revea...
I gave it four stars, so obviously I liked the book. I picked it up because I had enjoyed March so thoroughly and was looking forward to another well written piece of historical fiction. In that, I was not disappointed. This book is entertaining, (it felt) educational, and compelling. However, I...
When I read the blurb about this book, my interest was piqued. I live on Cape Cod, in a community with a Wampanoag history and they often fish in the pond behind my home. (Wampanoag means people of the light.) The setting of the book is Martha’s Vineyard. Reading it, provides us with a snapshot of l...
This is a good historical novel, though I thought it largely missed the opportunity to engage with the deeper issues at the intersection of cultures. It also bothered me that Caleb almost disappears from his own narrative - Bethia's story overwhelms the Indian man's potentially more interesting one.
Definitely want to read this book. I find it funny that the author of novel based her main character on a Wampanoag-indian. In my first novel one of my chacters is part Wampanoag as well (a novel that I started writing for the 2009 NaNoWriMo). This should be an interesting read!
I have enjoyed every book by Geraldine Brooks and this one did not disappoint me. Brooks lives on Martha's Vineyard and has selected the island as the setting for her latest book. The timeframe though is the 1600s and is the story of Caleb, the first native American to graduate from Harvard. Thro...
A lovely book. Really more Bethia's journey than Caleb's crossing, though his crossing was, indeed, significant to the book and the story. What I enjoyed most was the imagining of a young intelligent, headstrong woman in the 1600's and the difficulties she faced. A very nice historical account of li...
I am loving this book, but make no doubt, Caleb's Crossing is an incredibly slow read not only due to content but the author's writing style as well. However, it is a fantastic read that I have no regrets needing to slow down to read.
BETHIA'S CROSSING would be a title more indicative of the book's contents. Caleb is mostly a peripheral character. Feisty Puritan girl finds devious ways of gaining the knowledge she craves but is denied simply because she is a female. First I ever heard of someone getting a college education via ea...
There are a fair number of books out there now about women in colonial New England. If you like the topic and haven't tried them already, Anya Seton and Sally Gunning have done good work in the same area. Of the ones I've read, though, Caleb's Crossing is unquestionably the best-written, in terms of...
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