Arts & Entertainment

Geraldine Brooks at Book Passage

Pulitzer Prize-winning author of People of the Book, Geraldine Brooks talks about her new novel Caleb’s Crossing . Brooks transports the reader to 1660s Martha’s Vineyard and Cambridge to tell the dramatic tale of Caleb Cheshahteaumuck, the first Native American to graduate fromP Harvard, and Bethia Mayfield, a young woman who is struggling to find her own place in the world.

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