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<p><P>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&#151;now named Two-Falling-Voices&#151;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.</p><h3>The New Yorker</h3><p>In 1758, sixteen-year-old Mary Jemison was seized by Shawnee warriors from her homestead in southwestern Pennsylvania; she witnessed the scalping of her family, and was then adopted by two Seneca sisters to take the place of their brother, who had been killed by whites. The crux of this starkly beautiful novel, based on an account of Mary's life published in 1823, is her ultimate decision not to be "redeemed" -- released from captivity. The aut

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Author

Deborah Larsen; Chase Madar

Publisher

Random House, Incorporated

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780965044226

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.39 / 5 (61 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14