Here is another fine summer beach-y vacation book to read that I couldn't put down. The Pulitzer Prize winning author Geraldine Brooks latest book Caleb's Crossing begins during the year 1660 on what is now Martha's Vineyard. A young English Puritan girl named Bethia becomes secret friends with Caleb who is one of the American Indians there. Caleb's journey goes from not being able to read to becoming one of the first Native Americans to graduate from Harvard.
There are many struggles in this book including her father who is a minister trying to get the local tribes to convert to Calvinism. The characters seem so real even though the majority is fiction. There was however a Native American called Caleb who did graduate from Harvard and a copy of the actual document that he had written in Latin is in the book which I think is just awesome in the simple fact that It had survived undamaged for so many centuries. I have thoroughly enjoyed reading Caleb's Crossing.
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