A compelling historical novel based on the true story of Mary Jemison, who, at the age of sixteen in 1758, was taken by a Shawnee raiding part from her home near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, describes her life among the Seneca and reveals how she became an integral part of their tribe, refusing by her own choice to return to white society. A first novel. 25,000 first printing.
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"Gripping and poetic, brutal and wise, Deborah Larsen's telling of Mary Jemison's story gives us a deeply sympathetic and truly original American heroine."
--Jane Mendelsohn, author of I was Amelia Earhart
"The White has both narrative drive and lyric texture. And a rare, embodied wisdom. What more could we want in American story-telling?"
--Annie Dillard, author of For the Time Being and Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
"Deborah Larsen has conceived a book uncommonly beautiful and fierce. The story is almost majestic in its stark progression, and the writing is a rare thing -- at once exquisite and unadorned, and so powerful that the very spaces between passages can leave you aching, marking your breath."
-- Leah Hager Cohen, author of Glass, Paper, Beans: Revelations on the Nature and Value of Ordinary Things
Deborah Larsen grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota, and currently lives with her husband in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Her collection of poetry, Stitching Porcelain, was published in 1991, and her poems and short stories have appeared in The Nation, The Yale Review, The Quarterly, Oxford Magazine, and The New Yorker, among other publications. She has been a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford and a Wallace Stevens Fellow at Yale. She teaches creative writing at Gettysburg College, where she holds the Merle S. Boyer Chair.
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