flight of the sparrow by amy belding brown

Now, having lived on the other side of the forest, she begins to question the edicts that have guided her, torn between the life she knew and the wisdom the natives have shown her.īased on the compelling true narrative of Mary Rowlandson, Flight of the Sparrow is an evocative tale that transports the listener to a little-known time in early America and explores the real meanings of freedom, faith, and acceptance. All her life, Mary has been taught to fear God, submit to her husband, and abhor Indians. To her confused surprise, she is drawn to her captors' open and straightforward way of life-a feeling further complicated by her attraction to a generous, protective English-speaking native known as James Printer. Battling cold, hunger, and exhaustion, Mary witnesses harrowing brutality but also unexpected kindness. Now, her home destroyed, her children lost to her, she has been sold into the service of a powerful woman tribal leader and made a pawn in the ongoing bloody struggle between English settlers and native people. Even before Mary Rowlandson was captured by Indians on a winter day of violence and terror, she sometimes found herself in conflict with her rigid Puritan community. At twenty-seven, she’s never met a man who has tempted her enough to relinquish her independence to a matrimonial fate, and she hasn’t stayed in one place for long since her family fled the potato famine a decade ago. Not only were these settlers struggling to maintain life, but within a rather inflexible social structure: one that viewed the Native Americans as. She has learned to live in a new, free way. Massachusetts, 1869.Margaret Maher has never been one to settle down. A fictional novelization of an actual character, Amy Belding Brown brings us the story of Mary Rowlandson, a pre-revolutionary war settler in the Massachusetts Puritan settlement of Lancaster. She has seen vistas that have stolen away her breath.

She suspects that she has changed too much to ever fit easily into English society again.

Flight of the sparrow by amy belding brown