Search - The White (Vintage)

Iread this book in one day.It was fasinatung to read the story of a woman captured by the Indians as a child.

I didn't get to finish this book, the writing style didn't appeal to me particularly. Though it is set in 1758 where a 16 year old girl is kidnapped from Gettsburg, PA by Shawnee indians. The story tells of the girl's life growing up.

In 1758, when Mary Jemison is about sixteen, a Shawnee raiding party captures her Irish family near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Mary is the only one not killed and scalped. She is instead given to two Seneca sisters to replace their brother who was killed by whites. Emerging slowly from shock, Mary - now named Two-Falling-Voices - begins to make her home in Seneca culture and the wild landscape. She goes on to marry a Delaware, then a Seneca, and, though she contemplates it several times, never rejoins white society. Larsen alludes beautifully to the way Mary apprehends the brutality of both the white colonists and the native tribes; and how, open-eyed and independent, she thrives as a genuine American.

I loved this book and the author's writing style.

this is a fabulous book. wonderfully written.

Excellent and Quick read!!

Very fascinating book. A quick read, but full of interesting detail.