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      The White

      by Deborah Larsen
      Published
      Jul 2002
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      Historical Historical
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      219
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      In 1758, when Mary Jemison is about sixteen, a Shawnee raiding party captures her Irish family near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Mary is the only one not killed and scalped. She is instead given to two Seneca sisters to replace their brother who was killed by whites. Emerging slowly from shock, Mary--now named Two-Falling-Voices--begins to make her home in Seneca culture and the wild landscape. She goes on to marry a Delaware, then a Seneca, and, though she contemplates it several times, never rejoins white society. Larsen alludes beautifully to the way Mary apprehends the brutality of both the white colonists and the native tribes; and how, open-eyed and independent, she thrives as a genuine American.

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      General Fiction

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      Historical

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      Sep 2003 Vintage ISBN13 9780375712890 ISBN10 0375712895
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      First Edition Jul 2002 Knopf ISBN13 9780375413599 ISBN10 0375413596
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      Dec 2007 Knopf ISBN13 9780307429605 ISBN10 0307429601
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