A New York Times Bestselling Author A Pulitzer Prize-winning Author -- In a young man from Marthas Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College Upon this slender factual scaffold Geraldine Brooks creates a luminous tale of love and faith magic and adventure Growing up restless and curious in the tiny settlement of Great Harbor amid a small band of pioneers and Puritans Bethia Mayfield yearns after an education that is closed to her by her sex At twelve she forges a friendship with Caleb the son of a Wampanoag chieftain Bethias minister father makes Calebs education his project and a year later Caleb is in Harvard while Bethia finds herself an indentured servant in Cambridge
