It is very rare that debut novels reveal much mastery of craft, character, and story. appears to be derivative and ridden with cliches.If you can hang on.the author builds a powerful adventure story, animating everyone.in a gorgeous, vividly described American landscape. Interweaving the fate of the Mohawk Nation with the destiny of two lovers, Sara Donati’s compelling novel creates a complex, profound, passionate portait of an emerging America. Determined to provide schooling for all the children of the village, Elizabeth soon finds herself locked in conflict with the local slave owners as well as with her own family. And she meets a man unlike any she has ever encountered-a white man dressed like a Native American: Nathaniel Bonner, known to the Mohawk people as Between-Two-Lives.
It is a place unlike any she has ever experienced. Elizabeth Middleton leaves her comfortable English estate to join her family in a remote New York mountain village. Weaving a tapestry of fact and fiction, Sara Donati’s epic novel sweeps us into another time and place…and into a breathtaking story of love and survival in a land of savage beauty. Interweaving the fate of the remnants of the Mohawk Nation with the destiny of two lovers, Sara Donati's compelling novel creates a complex, profound, passiionate portrait of an emerging America. Elizabeth's ultimate destiny, here in the heart of the wilderness, lies in the odyssey to come: trials of faith and flesh, and passion born amid Nathaniel's own secrets and divided soul. As Judge Middletown brings pressure to bear against his daughter, she is faced with a choice between compliance and deception, a flight into the forrest, and a desire that will bend her hard will to compromise and transformation. An alliance with Todd could extract her father from ruin but would call into question the ownership of Hidden Wolf, the mountain where Nathaniel, his father, and a small group of Native Americans live and hunt. Financially strapped, Judge Middletown has plans for his daughter - betrothal to local doctor Richard Todd. Much to her surprise, she clashes with her own father as well.
He is Nathaniel Bonner, also known to the Mohawk people as Between-Two-Lives.ĭetermined to provide schooling for all the children of the village, white, black, and Native American, Elizabeth soon finds herself at odds with local slave owners. And she meets a man different from any she has ever encountered - a white man dressed like a Native American, tall and lean and unsettling in his blunt honesty. It is December of 1792 when she arrives in a cold climate unlike any she has ever experienced. When Elizabeth Middleton, twenty-nine yars old and unmarried, leaves her Aunt Merriweather's comfortable English estate to join her father and brother in the remote mountain village of Paradise on the edge of the New York wilderness, she does so with a strong will and unwavering purpose: to teach school.
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