Title: What becomes us
Description: "Following a near fatal accident, Evie, a mild-mannered, pregnant school teacher, abandons her controlling husband and flees Santa Cruz, California for the wilds of western New York. She rents a farm house on a dead end road in a seemingly ideal, multi-cultural community. When she begins teaching at the local high school, she becomes obsessed with an assigned book, The Captivity and Restoration of Mary Rowlandson. This early American classic is the first book written by a woman in the Americas and details Rowlandson's harrowing captivity during King Philip's War in the seventeenth century. As Mary Rowlandson's insatiable hunger begins to fill Evie's dreams, Evie wonders if she may actually be haunted. At the same time, Evie becomes obsessed with her neighbor, a married Chilean immigrant. As she grows more pregnant, her desires/hunger grows out of control, and threaten to destroy her adopted community" -- Amazon.com.
Subjects: Fiction, Abused wives, Pregnant women, Elementary school teachers, History teachers, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Historical, FICTION / Asian American, Soveraignty & goodness of God (Rowlandson, Mary White)
Places: New York (State), Western, Western New York (State)
People: Mary White Rowlandson (approximately 1635-1711)