PRAISE FOR
TAKEN BY THE SHAWNEE"A novel that condemns white colonialism, offering crucial insight into life for American Revolution-era women."
–Kirkus Reviews"Bingham recounts this fascinating story of capture,
survival, progress, healing, and return with lush descriptions and respect for
all involved. . . . She is a smart and empathetic
writer, and has created an awesome account of female survival at a horrific
time."
–Booklist"What an extraordinary pocket of history this is–with two cultures in the colonial landscape bargaining and conversing and murdering–the story is full of spectacular turns. Sallie Bingham has done a brilliant job of imagining a reality stranger than I knew how to guess."
–Joan Silber, author of
Secrets of Happiness and
Improvement"Sallie Bingham has imagined her ancestor's history so graphically, so passionately, that every page of this astounding story electrifies. Bingham's clear, powerful, sensuous prose details one woman's canny struggles to survive, understand, and make sense of the shocking realities immersing her–even to find beauty and love in the long, wild, rich course of it. Cinematic and wondrous,
Taken by the Shawnee proves an unforgettable saga."
–Joan Frank, author of
Juniper Street: A Novel and
Late Work: A Literary Autobiography of Love, Loss, and What I Was Reading"Thoroughly informed and daringly imagined, this gripping recreation of an ancestor's captivity probes the most momentous period in North American history: the clash between Native people and the remorselessly expanding white world."
–William deBuys, author of
The Trail to Kanjiroba: Rediscovering Earth in an Age of Loss"This stunning novel details the true story of a white woman's capture and adoption into the tribe followed by her ambivalent return to a stern Christian community. The gifted pen of her descendant, author Sallie Bingham, reveals the good and bad of both societies and leaves us pondering which life we would choose. A masterpiece of women's frontier experience!"
–Kathy Schulz, author of
The Underground Railroad in Ohio
PRAISE FOR SALLIE BINGHAM
"A gem of story-telling: oblique, finely drawn, keenly
intelligent.
–The Boston Globe"Bingham's work [is] sharp and deliciously unsettling, ripe
for discovery by a new generation of readers."
–Publishers Weekly, starred review"The stories couldn't be more engaging . . . [they] distill
the mysterious glow that lives emanate as they recede into the past, and
confirm Bingham's place in the front rank of practitioners of this elusive
genre."
–The New Yorker
