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Catherwood

by Marly Youmans

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Concise, poetic novel telling the story of a young woman, with a child, who wanders for months lost in a dense forest. Set in 1676 and ff. Intense, convincing description of a colonial woman lost in the limitless woods. Based on a historical record. ( )
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For Nancy Potts Coward
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As the tide began to ebb, the ship's cannon fired, skeins of white smoke unreeling into the brisk March air.
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A mother and her child become lost in the wilderness of 17th Century America. The novel follows Catherwood Lyte and her one-year-old daughter as they search, day after day, for signs of human habitation while trying to stay alive. A moving portrait of the ties that bind mother and child even beyond life. By the author of Little Jordan.… (more)

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