Caleb's Crossing

Geraldine Brooks
2011

Pre-loved
Good condition
Light tanning/foxing present

Young Bethia Mayfield grows up in a rigid Puritan settlement on Martha’s Vineyard, yearning for the education denied to women of her time. She forms a secret, transformative friendship with Caleb, a Wampanoag boy, and helps teach him English as he prepares to cross cultural divides. Following Caleb to Harvard, she becomes his reluctant servant and observer as they both navigate academic life shaped by prejudice and expectation. While Caleb’s triumph as the first Native American Harvard graduate illuminates hope, loss and tragedy—including death and displacement—cast a long shadow across their lives. The novel becomes Bethia’s elegy for her island, her people, and the bond she forged in forbidden curiosity.