Marly Youmans
2) Catherwood
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Ignatius Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Clambering into the branches of a tree, a young woman flees flaming arrows and massacre. She will struggle for survival: scour the wilderness for shelter, strive and seek for a new family and a setting where she can belong. For Charis, the world is a maze of hazards. And even if she survives, it is no simple matter to nest among her own kind--the godly, those called Puritans. She may desire companionship, may even fall in love with a man, and may...
Author
Publisher
Mercer University Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
After a death at The White Camellia Orphanage, young Pip Tatnall leaves Lexsy Georgia, to become a road kid, riding the rails east, west, and north. A bright, unusual boy who is disillusioned at a young age, Pip believes that he sees guilt shining in the faces of men wherever he goes. On his picaresque journey, he sweeps through society, revealing the highest and lowest in human nature and only slowly coming to self-understanding.
