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Salem, Massachusetts, 1692. Young Sarah Carrier is bright and wilful, openly challenging the small, brutal world in which her family lives. Her father is English in origin, quietly stoical but with a secret history. When her mother Martha, a herbalist, is accused of witchcraft, she makes Sarah promise not to stand up for her in court. As Sarah and her brothers are hauled into the prison themselves, the vicious cruelty of the trials becomes apparent. The Carrier family, starved and deprived of any decency, have to battle their way through the hysteria with the sheer willpower their mother has taught them.
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Kathleen Kent lives in Dallas with her husband and son. THE HERETIC'S DAUGHTER is her first novel.
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Mare Winningham starts by expressing young Sarah Carrier's dislike for her harsh mother and stern father. Then a pox comes to their late-seventeenth-century farm near Salem, Massachusetts, and Sarah is removed to the lively home of her aunt. Winningham lets us hear the tenderness in Sarah's voice as she warms to cheerier surroundings. Winningham's portrayal of Sarah's hostility on homecoming is sharpened with preadolescent indignation and judgment. Gradually, Winningham's tones change as Sarah becomes bitter and protective when her mother is accused of witchcraft. Powerful descriptions of 9-year-old Sarah's time in prison are depicted well by the fear, anger, and repulsion Winningham projects into her reading. Author Kent, a tenth-generation descendent of Martha Carrier, who was hanged as a witch in 1692, has an accurate vision for time and place, equaled by Winningham's narration. S.W. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award ฉ AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine
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Book Description Paperback. Export ed. Sarah Carrier is a young girl growing up in Andover, Massachusetts, near the town of Salem. She and her family work as farmers, and Sarah has a tense relationship with her mother, whose stubborn refusal to conform to the townรยรยรยรยขรยรยรยรยรยรยรยรยs expectations frustrates Sarah. A few towns over, in Salem, young girls begin accusing many of witchcraft, and Sarahรยรยรยรยขรยรยรยรยรยรยรยรยs mother soon joins the list of accused who are thrown in jail. The story of the Salem Witch Trials is familiar to many, but Kathleen Kentรยรยรยรยขรยรยรยรยรยรยรยรยs novel about the Carrier family effectively personalizes the tragedy of those left to languish in prison or hanged for the crime of witchcraft. Kent is an excellent writer, and she captures the language, figures, and philosophy of life in 17th-century New England. The Hereticรยรยรยรยขรยรยรยรยรยรยรยรยs Daughter is a moving and finely crafted novel worth reading for its history and the power of its story. 2008. A trade paperback copy in very good condition. Seller Inventory # 7083056
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