Caleb's Crossing / Geraldine Brooks / 306 pages

Fantastic historical fiction novel that will make you feel as though you are a young woman living in the mid 1600's in Martha's Vineyard and Boston. Fascinating look at Harvard in the early days where students mostly became ministers and had to know Latin, Greek and Hebrew before entering the college. Painful revelation of what the early settlers did in the name of God to other cultures and what happened to those who crossed from one culture to another. Beautifully written story of the first Native American graduate from Harvard told through the eyes of a young girl and woman whose family befriended Caleb.