Caleb's Crossing [Hardcover] Geraldine Brooks

A Puritan minister's daughter on Martha's Vineyard in the 1660s becomes the unlikely chronicler of an extraordinary life. Bethia grows up in isolation, stealing forbidden moments with Caleb, a Wampanoag boy whose brilliance will take him to Harvard as one of the first Native American students. Geraldine Brooks reconstructs this little-known chapter of colonial America with her trademark historical precision, giving voice to a woman who lived between worlds and a young man who crossed into another entirely. The faith Bethia clings to and the injustices she witnesses collide in ways that feel startlingly contemporary. Brooks won the Pulitzer for *March*; here she's just as unflinching about what colonialism cost and what courage looked like in an era that tried to silence both of them. For readers who want historical fiction that doesn't look away.