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Aug 30, 2018LoganLib_JennyI rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Pulitzer Prize winning Australian-American author, Geraldine Brooks tells the story of the first Native American to graduate from Harvard University in the 17th century. Brooks takes a small piece of history and with research and imagination weaves this fantastic tale set in the Puritan settlements of colonial Cambridge. I loved this book as it blended some of my favourite themes - education, philanthropy, religion, kindness, cross-cultural conflict, gender roles, coping with loss - and was based on a sliver of historical fact.