Flight of the Sparrow

Flight of the Sparrow

By Amy Belding Brown
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“Brown retells the actual events surrounding Mary Rowlandson’s abduction to expose the difficult role of women in colonial Puritan society, explore Mary’s quest for freedom, and offer a fuller understanding of her faith. She eloquently allows Mary’s story to unfold, while transporting the reader into the rigid world of the Puritans and juxtaposing that with the more natural life of the Native Americans. Brown’s story is as much inspirational as it is historical, and more intriguing because it is true.”

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"She suspects that she has changed too much to ever fit easily into English society again. The wilderness has now become her home. She can interpret the cries of birds. She has seen vistas that have stolen away her breath. She has learned to live in a new, free way."

Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1676. Even before Mary Rowlandson was captured by Indians on a winter day of violence and terror, she sometimes found herself in conflict with her rigid Puritan community. Now, her home destroyed, her children lost to her, she has been sold into the service of a powerful woman tribal leader and made a pawn in the ongoing bloody struggle between English settlers and native people. Battling cold, hunger, and exhaustion, Mary witnesses harrowing brutality but also unexpected kindness. To her confused surprise, she is drawn to her captors' open and straightforward way of life—a feeling further complicated by her attraction to a generous, protective English-speaking native known as James Printer. All her life, Mary has been taught to fear God, submit to her husband, and abhor Indians. Now, having lived on the other side of the forest, she begins to question the edicts that have guided her, torn between the life she knew and the wisdom the natives have shown her.

Based on the compelling true narrative of Mary Rowlandson, Flight of the Sparrow is an evocative tale that transports the listener to a little-known time in early America and explores the real meanings of freedom, faith, and acceptance.

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  1. Odin
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    Fascinating period story.

    For those who yearn to take in a book whose storyline covers the Puritan culture of America in the 17th century, Ms. Brown’s excellent and original storytelling will more than satisfy. Reader, Heather Henderson, takes us through an unhappy marriage between Mary Rowlandson and her minster husband and the toll it takes on their children. The main conflict of the story begins, however, when Mary her children are captured by Native Americans after an attack on their village. As the story continues, Mary finds in spite of the cruelty she experiences in captivity, she also comes to a heightened respect for Nature and the unexpected freedom the Native American women seem to have. A thoroughly intriguing look into a inordinate assimilation and one that gives rise to the listener’s own appreciation, or lack of, for Nature and the liberties of the Indians of that day.

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