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The Heretic's Daughter (Carrier #2)

Kathleen Kent

Hardcover | Pages: 332 pages

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Title	:	The Heretic's Daughter (Carrier #2)
Author	:	Kathleen Kent
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Large Print
Pages	:	Pages: 332 pages
Published	:	September 3rd 2008 by Little, Brown and Company (first published 2008)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Paranormal. Witches

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Martha Carrier was one of the first women to be accused, tried and hanged as a witch in Salem, Massachusetts. Like her mother, young Sarah Carrier is bright and willful, openly challenging the small, brutal world in which they live. Often at odds with one another, mother and daughter are forced to stand together against the escalating hysteria of the trials and the superstitious tyranny that led to the torture and imprisonment of more than 200 people accused of witchcraft. This is the story of Martha's courageous defiance and ultimate death, as told by the daughter who survived. Kathleen Kent is a tenth generation descendant of Martha Carrier. She paints a haunting portrait, not just of Puritan New England, but also of one family's deep and abiding love in the face of fear and persecution.

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Original Title:	The Heretic's Daughter
ISBN:	0316037532 (ISBN13: 9780316037532)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Carrier #2
Characters:	Sarah Carrier, Martha Carrier, Thomas Carrier
Setting:	Salem, Massachusetts,1692(United States)
Literary Awards:	David J. Langum Sr. Prize for American Historical Fiction (2008)

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This is an excellent historical fiction about the Salem witch trials. It is told through the eyes of the daughter of Martha Carrier (convicted and hung) and written by a descendent who grew up listening to the stories. I liked the manner in which it was written (I believe it would be the language of that time) and could feel what it was like to be falsely accused and imprisoned. What an awful place and time, especially for the children! It's easy to see what ignorance, religious beliefs, and

The Salem Witch trials has always fascinated me, so perhaps I am biased, but I loved ....loved.... loved this book. Sarah Carrier is an interesting narrator since she sees the proceedings as a child might, but with a teen's relationship with her unusual mother. I was amazed by how readily the people of Salem were to believe the tales of witchcraft as the net ever expanded wider and wider. How many women were left untouched in the Salem area?? Is this another allegory for our times - how readily

The Salem witch trials remain among the most familiar of the dark, unhappy chapters in American history, having provoked a reasonably constant trickle of fictional and non-fictional accounts. Indeed, Witch Hunt! has lately become one of the more widely used and abused rallying cries in certain corners of the twitterverse and other venues of public media. In 2016, Pulitzer Prize winner, Stacey Schiff revisited the sad history in her meticulous and exhaustively detailed non-fiction history, The

" A needle is such a small, brittle thing. It is easily broken. It can hold but one fragile thread. But if the needle is sharp, it can pierce the coarsest cloth. Ply the needle in and out of a canvas and with a great length of thread one can make a sail to move a ship across the ocean. In such a way can a sharp gossipy tongue, with the thinnest thread of rumor, stitch together a story to flap in the breeze. Hoist that story upon the pillar of superstitious belief and a whole town can be pulled

I wept at the injustices perpetuated upon women throughout history. Boo and hiss to insecure men with tiny junk that project their self-loathing onto others, especially women. BOO and HISS I say!On a deeper level, I appreciated Kent's portrayal of the bond between mothers and daughters. Even when you don't understand your mother or - hell - even like the bitch, there is usually a point when you realize there is little to separate the two of you and no one will ever quite understand the song your

I am going to say right off the bat that had this been written from Martha Carrier's perspective I think I would have liked this book more. Instead it was written through her daughter's eyes and because of that you only know what her daughter knows. Which isn't much considering she's under 13 for much of the book and living in the 1600's for God's sake where kids weren't privy to the adult information. This book was for me the life of a young girl on a farm in the 1600's with a bit of "Salem

This book swept me up in the world that Sarah lived in. I just can't imagine. A group of young girls have the power to have people killed. The thing is I know unfortunately how bitter women can be.