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Lake in the clouds by Sara Donati
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Lake in the clouds (edition 2002)

by Sara Donati

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Fiction. Literature. Romance. Historical Fiction. HTML:In her extraordinary novels Into the Wilderness and Dawn on a Distant Shore, award-winning writer Sara Donati deftly captured the vast, untamed wilderness of late-eighteenth-century New York and the trials and triumphs of the Bonner family. Now Donati takes on a new and often overlooked chapter in our nation??s past??and in the life of the spirited Bonners??as their oldest daughter, the brave and beautiful Hannah, comes of age with a challenge that will change her forever. Masterfully told, this passionate story is a moving tribute to a resilient, adventurous family and a people poised at the brink of a new century.
It is the spring of 1802, and the village of Paradise is still reeling from the typhoid epidemic of the previous summer. Elizabeth and Nathaniel Bonner have lost their two-year-old son, Hannah??s half brother Robbie, but they struggle on as always: the men in the forests, the twins Lily and Daniel in Elizabeth??s school, and Hannah as a doctor in training, apprenticed to Richard Todd. Hannah is descended from healers on both sides??one Scots grandmother and one Mohawk??and her reputation as a skilled healer in her own right is growing.
After a long night spent attending to a birth, Elizabeth and Hannah encounter an escaped slave hiding on the mountain. She calls herself Selah Voyager, and she is looking for Curiosity Freeman??a former slave herself, one of the village??s wisest women and Elizabeth??s closest friend. The Bonners take Selah, desperately ill, to Lake in the Clouds to care for her, and with that simple act they are drawn into the secret life that Curiosity and Galileo Freeman and their grown children have been leading for almost ten years. The Bonners will do what they must to protect the Freemans, just as Hannah will protect her patient, who presents more than one kind of challenge. For a bounty hunter is afoot??Hannah??s childhood friend and first love, Liam Kirby.
While Elizabeth and Nathaniel undertake a treacherous journey through the endless forests to bring Selah to safety in the north, Hannah embarks on a very different journey to New-York City, with two goals: to learn the secrets of vaccination against smallpox, a disease that threatens Paradise, and to find out what she can about Liam??s immediate past and what caused him to change so drastically from the boy she once loved. The obstacles she faces as a woman and a Mohawk make her confront questions long avoided about her place in the world.
Those questions follow her back to Paradise, where she finds that the medical miracle she brings with her will not cure prejudice or superstition, nor can it solve the problem of slavery. No sooner have the Bonners begun to rebound from their losses??old and new??than they find themselves confronted by more than one old enemy in a battle that will test the strength of their love for one another. Hannah faces the decision she has always dreaded: will she make a life for herself in a
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Title:Lake in the clouds
Authors:Sara Donati
Info:New York : Bantam Books, 2002.
Collections:Your library
Rating:****
Tags:read 2011, fiction, historical, new york, 1800s, series, native americans, family saga, united states

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Such a great storyteller! Beautifully written takes you to another time. ( )
  sishpa | Apr 25, 2020 |
Book #3 in the Into the Wilderness series. This is the American version of Outlander. This story involved travel to Canada, escaped slaves, small pox and scarlet fever. 668 pages ( )
  Tess_W | Jun 1, 2019 |
Comfort reading Sara Donati while having a sick day. ( )
  nautilus | Sep 20, 2017 |
This is the third book in Sara Donati's Wilderness series, featuring the Bonner family (and their friends and kin) of New York.  This one takes place in 1802, eight years after the previous book.

Elizabeth Middleton Bonner, the female lead of the first two books, is still a player here, but the focus is on her stepdaughter Hannah, now 18 years old.  A good part of the story takes place in New York City, where Hannah goes to learn how to inoculate against smallpox.

Learning about medical treatment in the early 1800s, and life in a large city then, was quite interesting - for both Hannah and this reader.  You know too that, just as characters from previous books in the series reappear in this one, new characters introduced in this book (such as Dr. Savard) are bound to be in later books in this series.

There's also a lot of action back in Paradise, the fictional town in the real Adirondacks near Lake George and Saratoga, both of which I have visited.  In both locations, runaway slaves and the efforts by some slaveholders to bypass the 1799 gradual manumission laws provide the impetus for an interesting story arc.

There's not as much romance in this book as in the first two in the series - which is a good thing, in my opinion, and causes me to classify it as historical fiction rather than historical romance.  In fact there's so little romance that the conclusion for Hannah just doesn't ring true for me.  Still, I will be continuing on with this series.  Kate Reading's excellent narration in the audiobook certainly helps.

© Amanda Pape - 2016

[The audiobook, and a print copy for reference, were borrowed from and returned to public libraries.] ( )
1 vote riofriotex | Dec 1, 2016 |
Love this series. Elizabeth and Nathaniel Bonner's adventures continue. Hannah Bonner now a young woman finds her calling. Lilly and Daniel continue to charm the readers. We get to know Curiosity and her family as well as the hardships of the freed and enslaved. BOOK #3 in the series. The characters are all so well developed they feel like family. ( )
  booklovers2 | Jul 31, 2016 |
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Fiction. Literature. Romance. Historical Fiction. HTML:In her extraordinary novels Into the Wilderness and Dawn on a Distant Shore, award-winning writer Sara Donati deftly captured the vast, untamed wilderness of late-eighteenth-century New York and the trials and triumphs of the Bonner family. Now Donati takes on a new and often overlooked chapter in our nation??s past??and in the life of the spirited Bonners??as their oldest daughter, the brave and beautiful Hannah, comes of age with a challenge that will change her forever. Masterfully told, this passionate story is a moving tribute to a resilient, adventurous family and a people poised at the brink of a new century.
It is the spring of 1802, and the village of Paradise is still reeling from the typhoid epidemic of the previous summer. Elizabeth and Nathaniel Bonner have lost their two-year-old son, Hannah??s half brother Robbie, but they struggle on as always: the men in the forests, the twins Lily and Daniel in Elizabeth??s school, and Hannah as a doctor in training, apprenticed to Richard Todd. Hannah is descended from healers on both sides??one Scots grandmother and one Mohawk??and her reputation as a skilled healer in her own right is growing.
After a long night spent attending to a birth, Elizabeth and Hannah encounter an escaped slave hiding on the mountain. She calls herself Selah Voyager, and she is looking for Curiosity Freeman??a former slave herself, one of the village??s wisest women and Elizabeth??s closest friend. The Bonners take Selah, desperately ill, to Lake in the Clouds to care for her, and with that simple act they are drawn into the secret life that Curiosity and Galileo Freeman and their grown children have been leading for almost ten years. The Bonners will do what they must to protect the Freemans, just as Hannah will protect her patient, who presents more than one kind of challenge. For a bounty hunter is afoot??Hannah??s childhood friend and first love, Liam Kirby.
While Elizabeth and Nathaniel undertake a treacherous journey through the endless forests to bring Selah to safety in the north, Hannah embarks on a very different journey to New-York City, with two goals: to learn the secrets of vaccination against smallpox, a disease that threatens Paradise, and to find out what she can about Liam??s immediate past and what caused him to change so drastically from the boy she once loved. The obstacles she faces as a woman and a Mohawk make her confront questions long avoided about her place in the world.
Those questions follow her back to Paradise, where she finds that the medical miracle she brings with her will not cure prejudice or superstition, nor can it solve the problem of slavery. No sooner have the Bonners begun to rebound from their losses??old and new??than they find themselves confronted by more than one old enemy in a battle that will test the strength of their love for one another. Hannah faces the decision she has always dreaded: will she make a life for herself in a

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