She’s never happier than when she’s reading a stack of 19th century letters or exploring old church records. She loves stone walls, sugar maples and old cemeteries, and her favorite hobby is nature photography. A Vermonter and history nerd, she was infused at an early age with a New England outlook and values. 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.īased 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.Īmy Belding Brown is the bestselling USA Today author of EMILY'S HOUSE, FLIGHT OF THE SPARROW and MR. All her life, Mary has been taught to fear God, submit to her husband, and abhor Indians. 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. Battling cold, hunger, and exhaustion, Mary witnesses harrowing brutality but also unexpected kindness. 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. 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. She has learned to live in a new, free way…. She has seen vistas that have stolen away her breath. She suspects that she has changed too much to ever fit easily into English society again.

A historical novel based on the life of Mary Rowlandson

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