Geraldine Brooks is the author of five novels: the Pulitzer Prize-winning March; the international bestsellers Caleb's Crossing, People of the Book, and Year of Wonders; and, most recently, The Secret Chord. She has also written the acclaimed nonfiction works Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence. Born and raised in Australia, she lives on Martha's Vinyard with her husband, the author Tony Horwitz, and their two sons.
Praise for Caleb's Crossing
“Caleb’s Crossing could not be more enlightening and
involving. Beautifully written from beginning to end, it
reconfirms Geraldine Brooks’s reputation as one of our most supple
and involving novelists.” —Jane Smiley, The New York Times Book
Review
“Brooks filters the early colonial era through the eyes of a
minister’s daughter growing up on the island known today as
Martha’s Vineyard…[Bethia’s] voice – rendered by Brooks with
exacting attention to the language and rhythm of the seventeenth
century – is captivatingly true to her time.” —The New Yorker
“A dazzling act of the imagination. . .Brooks takes the few known
facts about the real Caleb, and builds them into a beautifully
realized and thoroughly readable tale…this is intimate historical
fiction, observing even the most acute sufferings and smallest
heroic gestures in the context of major events.” —Matthew Gilbert,
The Boston Globe
“In Bethia, Geraldine Brooks has created a multidimensional,
inspiring yet unpredictable character…Bethia’s forbearance, her
quiet insistence, the way she creates her life using the best of
whatever is handed to her, puts the struggles of American women
today in perspective.” —Susan Salter Reynolds, The Los Angeles
Times
“Original and compelling. . .[Brooks’ characters] struggle every
waking moment with spiritual questions that are as real and
unending as the punishing New England winters.”—Paul Chaat Smith,
The Washington Post
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