New book trailer for Caleb’s Crossing

looking forward to another enjoyable and intelligent work by geraldine brooks. historical fiction at its best

Thank you Geraldine,

Once again you have truly transported me. Your ability to capture a time, a people and a set of beliefs in a world far apart from mine is testimony to your superb research skills and your superior authorship.

I await each new venture you undertake with unbridled anticipation and am grateful that their is a mind as sensitive and finely wrought as yours to shape these remarkable journeys on which you take me..

A very grateful reader (not entirely lacking in envy!).

I am thoroughly enjoying Caleb’s Crossing as I have enjoyed your other books. I am reading it on a Kindle. I am distracted by the spelling of “savage” which is spelled “salvage” in the book. Many of the words in the book are “archaic” and that adds beauty to the book. I don’t think “salvage” is an archaic spelling—I think it is an editing error.

Caleb’s Crossing is beautifully evocative, but the ongoing, repetitive use of “salvage” for savage is very disconcerting. I hope it will be corrected in future printings.

What does chirurgical mean? Does it refer to medicine? Can I infer that Samuel studied medicine in Padua?
Is “salvage” a misprint? I see that it bothered Nancy Tustin, as well. I thought the first use was a misprint, but it was repeated throughout the book!
What does “bever” mean?

I too am annoyed by the repeated use of salvage rather than savage and must assume that it’s an error as have seen no other explanation. One wonders why it still appears in the Kindle version?

Caleb’s Crossing was given to me by a house guest who stayed with us this summer. She thought it would be right up my alley and I am happy to report that she was correct. Having spent ten years working on my novel entitled, “My American Eden”, I became transfixed with the history of seventeenth century New England. Schooled in the notion that the first colonists sought escape from religious persecution, I was stunned to learn of the the terrible events that unfolded in Boston, culminating in the death by hanging of Mary Dyer. Geraldine Brooks did a fantastic job in bringing the earliest days of Martha’s Vineyard to life. All the decisions made regarding history and language were fascinating to read and my hat goes off to her as an author. She wrote of the awful punishments meted out by an early, theocratic, general court, but focused on the strength of those first women on our shores. By their actions, they helped to shape the future of what became the United States of America.