Daughter of the morning star
Subtitle: a novel
By: Patricia Weenolsen
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Remembrance of things that never happened -- bk. 2
Publisher: Rubythroat Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Seattle, WA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781935420064
Subjects: Young women; Indians of North America; Fiction
Description: "In 1703, Mary emerges from Abenaki Indian captivity and returns to Salem, where she gathers together a band of abused children. These include Mary's niece, the endearing five-year-old Sophie, whom her mother, Letty, accuses of being a witch and locks up periodically without food or water. Letty also abuses pretty fifteen-year-old black 'Chuba, Letty's slave, whom Letty shoots for secretly feeding Sophie. Roaming the streets is Dorcas, the teen-aged distracted daughter of a hanged witch. And taking refuge in the Pest House are the plague-scarred artistic ten-year-old Abigail, and the inventive twelve-year-old Thaddeus, both cared for by Elihu, a hideously cratered hulk of a man who falls hopelessly in love with Mary. Her moral compass and spiritual knowledge guide her to rescue many victims of societal and individual injustice."--P. [4] of cover.