![]() ![]() She calls herself Selah Voyager, and she is looking for Curiosity Freeman-a former slave herself, one of the village’s wisest women and Elizabeth’s closest friend. Hannah is descended from healers on both sides-one Scots grandmother and one Mohawk-and her reputation as a skilled healer in her own right is growing.Īfter a long night spent attending to a birth, Elizabeth and Hannah encounter an escaped slave hiding on the mountain. Elizabeth and Nathaniel Bonner have lost their two-year-old son, Hannah’s half brother Robbie, but they struggle on as always: the men in the forests, the twins Lily and Daniel in Elizabeth’s school, and Hannah as a doctor in training, apprenticed to Richard Todd. It is the spring of 1802, and the village of Paradise is still reeling from the typhoid epidemic of the previous summer. Masterfully told, this passionate story is a moving tribute to a resilient, adventurous family and a people poised at the brink of a new century. Now Donati takes on a new and often overlooked chapter in our nation’s past-and in the life of the spirited Bonners-as their oldest daughter, the brave and beautiful Hannah, comes of age with a challenge that will change her forever. ![]() ![]() In her extraordinary novels Into the Wilderness and Dawn on a Distant Shore, award-winning writer Sara Donati deftly captured the vast, untamed wilderness of late-eighteenth-century New York and the trials and triumphs of the Bonner family. ![]()
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