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NAL
July 2014
On Sale: July 1, 2014
Featuring: Mary Rowlandson
354 pages
ISBN: 0451466691
EAN: 9780451466693
Kindle: B00G3L13DS
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Historical | Fiction
She suspects that she has changed too much to ever fit
easily into English society again. The wilderness has now
become her home. She can interpret the cries of birds. She
has seen vistas that have stolen away her breath. She has
learned to live in a new, free way.... Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1676. Even before Mary Rowlandson
was 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 ongoing
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 the compelling true narrative of Mary Rowlandson,
Flight of the Sparrow is an evocative tale that transports
the reader to a little-known time in early America and
explores the real meanings of freedom, faith, and acceptance.
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