This is a book for both readers of literary fiction as well as those who love a well-researched work of historical fiction. Amy Belding Brown has turned an authentic drama of Indian captivity into a compelling, emotionally gripping tale that is at once wrenching and soulful. As Mary tells her husband, “The truth is… that my time in the wilderness has changed me. Praise for Flight of the Sparrow 'Breathes life into a vital but oft-neglected chapter of our history. Her writing engages with a passion and longing as Rowlandson struggles with a life she desires living in the woods with the Indians or reverting to a subservient Puritan wife and mother. Flight of the Sparrow showcases the author’s imagination bound by her dedication to historical fact. In this amazingly written and deeply researched book, Amy Belding Brown delivers 17 th-century Massachusetts to the reader with a prose that springs from the page and wraps you in wonder. She questions her husband, her community, and her God, and is torn between a life she wants and a life she must lead. When she is sold back to the English-and her minister husband-she realizes that she has more in common with the ways of the Indians than her Puritan world.
Now, living among them, she sees both the quick brutality and genuine kindness of their way of life. All her life, Mary is taught that the Indians who inhabit the darkened forest are heathens and sinful.
Her village is burnt to the ground in an Indian raid, and she is captured and sold into slavery. In 1676, Mary Rowlandson finds herself face to face with the enemy. Flight of the Sparrow: A Novel of Early America
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