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Geraldine Brooks

Geraldine Brooks is the Australian-born author of the bestselling novels Year of Wonders and March, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize in 2006. She is also the author of the acclaimed non-fiction work Nine Parts of Desire. A graduate of Sydney University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Brooks was a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Bosnia, Somalia and the Middle East. In 2010 she won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Lifetime Achievement Award. Geraldine lives in rural Virginia with her husband, the author Tony Horwitz, and their son.

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Title:: Caleb's Crossing (MP3)
Written by:: Geraldine Brooks
Read by:: Jennifer Ehle
Format:: Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
Number of CDs:: 1
Duration:: 12 hours 7 minutes
MP3 size:: 529 MB
Published:: October 01 2011
Available Date:: May 28 2011
Age Category:: Adult
ISBN:: 9781743103210
Genres:: Fiction; Australian Fiction; Historical Fiction
Publisher:: Bolinda audio

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From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of People of the Book.

Caleb Cheeshateaumauk was the first native American to graduate from Harvard College back in 1665. Caleb's Crossing gives voice to his little known story. Caleb, a Wampanoag from the island of Martha's Vineyard, seven miles off the coast of Massachusetts, comes of age just as the first generation of Indians come into contact with English settlers, who have fled there, desperate to escape the brutal and doctrinaire Puritanism of the Massachusetts Bay colony. The story is told through the eyes of Bethia, daughter of the English minister who educates Caleb in the Latin and Greek he needs in order to enter the college. As Caleb makes the crossing into white culture, Bethia, 14 years old at the novel's opening, finds herself pulled in the opposite direction. Trapped by the narrow strictures of her faith and her gender, she seeks connections with Caleb's world that will challenge her beliefs and set her at odds with her community.