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Angel and Apostle by Deborah NoyesI received a review copy of this book from Caitlin over at Unbridled Books.
At the end of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic novel, The Scarlet Letter, we know that Pearl, the elf-child daughter of Hester Prynne, is somewhere in Europe, comfortable, well set, a mother herself now. But it could not have been easy for her to arrive at such a place, when she begins life as the bastard child of a woman publicly humiliated, again and again, in an unrelentingly judgmental Puritan world.
With a brilliant and authentic sense of that time and place, Deborah Noyes envisions the path Pearl takes to make herself whole and to carve her place in the New World. Beautifully written with boundless compassion, Angel and Apostle is a heart-rending and imaginative debut in which Noyes masterfully makes Hawthorne’s character her own.
3 comments:
I generally enjoy when modern authors put a new spin on the classics. Hope this is good one too!
Very intriguing. Love your mailbox picture. Here's mine!
That looks like a cool book! Happy reading.
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